Does It Spark Joy? Learning to Let Go of My Books
Before her Netflix series, patron saint of minimalism Marie Kondo first entered our lives through her best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, teaching hoarders...
Book Your Dream Literary Escape Today For $17 Through Airbnb
In honor of World Book Day 2019, Airbnb announced a sweet deal for book lovers: you can book a dream literary escape to one of several...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 23rd, 2019
Sponsored by our $100 Amazon gift card giveaway! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while...
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Latinx Vision of the American West
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s short story collection Sabrina & Corina summons a world we hardly recognize, but should. Do you know the origin story of the Navajo? Would...
Going from Cocaine to Novels, with the Help of “Novel with Cocaine”
Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our lives. This time, we asked: What’s a book that changed your mind? Novel with...
7 Books About Women Searching For Home
When I was growing up, the only constant in my life was change. Like Oksana’s family in my novel, Oksana, Behave!, my family left Kiev, Ukraine,...
3 Time Travel Books to Get Mixed Up In
I think about the possibilities and implications of time travel way more than a normal human adult should. Let’s face it, though, filling your head with...
4 Nonfiction Books that Might Just Save The World (or At Least America)
Have you ever read a book and just thought “everyone needs to read this?” I’m typically a fiction reader and often find it hard to get...
How to Get a Library of Congress Reader’s Card
After living in the DC area for almost five years, I finally got my act together and went to the Library of Congress to get a...
5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Work In A Bookstore
I still have dreams where I’m in the bookstore past closing time, and customers are banging on the door or lining up as far as the...
