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• Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in February

  

  We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction,… [more]

  

• Book Fetish: Volume LXVI

  

  Book Corners: Have a habit of falling asleep while reading? These bookmarks might be for you.   Deadfall… [more]

  

• They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: March 5, 2013

  

  Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive… [more]

  

• They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: March 5, 2013

  

  Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive… [more]

  

• The Best of BookRiot.tv: Most Watched Trailers – February 23-March 1, 2013

  

  Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!… [more]

  

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback.

At a small college in Canyon, Texas — West Texas A&M University — an English professor named Martin Jacobsen is offering a new class titled “Introduction to Literature — Heavy Metal as a Literary Genre.” According to this story, Jacobsen had such success with using lyrics from an Iron Maiden song as a tool for [...]

Rioters Jenn and Preeti are revisiting the Wheel of Time series. Follow their What the WoT adventures here. Warning: Rife with spoilers! JN: I think it is safe to say that we both loved this book, given the all-caps texts and chats that occurred during the reading process. PC: As I made it my February Riot Round-Up [...]

A few weeks ago director Guillermo del Toro floated the idea of Kickstarting Hellboy 3, the would-be third installment of his film adaptations of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy comic. The first two films were loved by fans, but not great box-office successes. I’m a fan of the movies and could easily see myself ponying up cash [...]

BIG day for new books, y’all. Big day. I’ve written about a couple of these before, but they are so good they deserve another mention, and now they’re out in the world, where you can get ‘em too! Let’s do this. Elders by Ryan McIlvain (Hogarth) Two 20-year-old Mormon missionaries endure the final weeks of their [...]

The pose of Very Much Wanting To Understand Ulysses by James Joyce is Parivrtta Janu Sirasana or Revolved Head To Knee Pose and you’ll probably need someone to help you so you don’t sprain yourself. Ta-dah! Asana: You piled paperbacks into an astoundingly tall stack. The Proust Pose is reading anything in English translation while [...]

This is a guest post by Josh Corman. Josh splits his slivers of free time between his incredibly patient wife, his wildly energetic son, the Kentucky Wildcats, and a tall stack of books. He also teaches high school English and blogs about faith, fatherhood, and culture at thethingaboutflying.com. His novels, short stories, and a memoir have appeared [...]

  The New York Times and Starbucks are teaming up to give coffee drinkers a way to leap over the newspaper’s digital paywall —