Alexandre Dumas in the Kitchen
Most people know Alexandre Dumas for his classics (usually assigned as required reading for class) The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, but fewer...
9 Books About Alaska for People with Iditarod Fever
Caroline Van Hemert, author of “The Sun is a Compass,” recommends books by Alaskans about the Last Frontier Photo by Hari Nandakumar on Unsplash When someone asks me...
Ten Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, “I must be private, secret, as anonymous and submerged as possible in order to write.” Given the multiple volumes of...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 18th, 2019
Sponsored by Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot!...
18 Of The Best YA Dystopias!
This Riot Recommendation listing the best YA dystopias is sponsored by Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera. Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City....
Giveaway: INTERNMENT by Samira Ahmed
This giveaway is sponsored by TheNOVL. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for...
Theories of the Point-of-View Shift in AC/DC’s ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’
A short story by Jennifer Wortman Welcome to The Commuter, our home for poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narrative. Issue №56 1. The speaker — let’s call him Brian — is...
T Kira Madden’s Memoir Is a Love Letter to Misfits
The author of “Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls” on navigating family darkness and yearning for answers T Kira Madden. (Photo by Jac Martinez) “For instance:...
Why We Should All Read Screenplays
Watching movies is one of those pastimes that pretty much everyone loves. There’s a whole range of genres so you’re sure to find something you enjoy,...
372 Pages of Jealous Haters: A Reading Bad Books Podcast
A couple of years ago, Zachary Littrell wrote a post about Celebrating Really Bad Books, putting forward the case for a bookworms’ version of Mystery Science Theater...
