The Brutal Secret I Share with My Neighbor
“The Neighbors”by Shruti Swamy At that time my daughter was eight, and my son had just been born. I sat on the front lawn with him...
How to Configure Cache-Control Headers in Apache
Each user’s browser makes use of a built-in cache to store downloaded objects, which can significantly speed up repeat visits to your website by loading from...
9 Books Where Women of Color Tell Their Own Stories About Mental Health
I often describe my debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, as essays about race, place, and belonging written across twenty years. But they are...
Lessons From the High School Library
High school was an awkward time that I could not wait to escape while it was happening and, though you couldn’t pay me to go back,...
New, Upcoming, and Undiscovered Graphic History and Memoir
San Diego ComicCon@Home was a pretty amazing event. Not the same as being there, but then, nothing is. You’d think tuning in from the couch would...
Will You Join The Sealey Challenge?
Last year, I discovered The Sealey Challenge too late. During the month of August, participants read a poetry chapbook or full-length collection a day for 31...
10 Books to Read After Finishing CRASH LANDING ON YOU
Crash Landing on You is a Korean drama available on Netflix that is taking marathon watchers by surprise. It’s 16 episodes that are roughly an hour...
13 Fantastic Black Fantasy Authors
As voracious a book dragon as I am, there have been a few genres I could never sink my teeth into. One is true crime; the...
I Used To Be Too Scared To Abandon Books
If you’ve read some of my past pieces for Book Riot, it is no secret that I love to expose the unconventional ways that reading was...
The Best Books You’ve Never Heard of (Summer 2020)
Being immersed in the book world often means feeling you’re drinking from a fire hose of new releases. Every week brings more fodder for the TBR...
