Matt Grant
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YA Books About Parallel Universes
Eight fantastic young adult books that explore the concept of the multiverse, for your next cross-dimensional reading journey. → Read More
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation Has Never Been Busier Helping Bookstores
Last August, I wrote about the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, or "Binc," a Michigan-based non-profit created to support booksellers who have fallen on → Read More
Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children
On November 12, at the Pen Parentis Literary Salon in Lower Manhattan, I hear author Jimin Han say something I've never heard a writer admit before. "I didn't → Read More
The Anti–Beach Read Book List
If your ideal summer beach read is a long, complicated, dense book, have we got the list for you. Pick up these challenging reads this summer. → Read More
Open Secrets at the PEN World Voices Festival
It's the first day of the 2019 PEN World Voices Festival and I'm 30 minutes late to see Tara Westover talk with Min Jin Lee about her bestselling memoir → Read More
Bright Lights, Big City, New Bookstore
The first thing you notice as you walk into Brooklyn's brand new Center for Fiction, which opened in February, is the bookstore. 1,800 square feet of floor-to → Read More
Why the Muppets Defaulted on Their Student Loans
Miss Piggy is trying to get back on track after deferring her loans for several years while trying to break into show business. → Read More
Is It Okay To Stop Reading a Book You Don’t Like?
Common wisdom says that in order to read faster, you should skip books you don't absolutely love. But that doesn't teach us anything. → Read More
So Long, Stan Lee
Like many of you, I was sad to hear about the passing of Stan Lee on November 12. At 95 and appearing in new cameos all the time, it just felt like Lee would always be around. He increasingly felt lik → Read More
What One Person Can to Do to Get People Reading
Alvin Irby never wanted to become a teacher, the same profession his mother held for over 30 years in the Little Rock, Arkansas school district in which he grew → Read More
A Writer At Risk, Working in New York City
What is home, and how do you know where you truly belong? These are questions that Kanchana Ugbabe, an Indian-Nigerian writer currently living at Westbeth → Read More
Not Reading Your Books? You May Be An Artist
One of my first posts at Book Riot was all about my obsessive need to bring a lot of books home and then quietly despair as they pile up and go unread. The massiveness of my TBR led to plenty of anxi → Read More
This Weekend, Check Out the Largest Free Literary Event in NYC
The Twelfth Annual Brooklyn Book Festival takes place this weekend, featuring readings, panels, and signings from beloved authors from all around the world. → Read More
Here’s Where to Find the Best Aquaman T-Shirts
Despite what you've heard, the King of Atlantis has always been cool. Show your Aquaman allegiance with this list of Aquaman t-shirts, hats, and jackets. → Read More
The Bronx Book Festival Is This Weekend!
The Bronx Book Festival comes to Fordham Plaza this Saturday, May 19. Events include keynote speakers Daniel José Older and Elizabeth Acevedo, as well as panels, readings, and more. → Read More
6 of the Best Sites for YA Book Giveaways
Want free books? Of course you do. These sites offer free YA book giveaways for the biggest fans. → Read More
MANHATTAN BEACH Is New York’s Next All-City Read
Jennifer Egan's WWII-set novel won the popular vote out of five novels for the second annual largest community read in the country, One Book, One New York. → Read More
PBS Reveals List of America’s 100 Best-Loved Novels
This May, PBS launches an eight-part series on the search for America's #1 Best-Loved books with The Great American Read. The list of 100 finalists contains books spanning five centuries and from 15 different countries. → Read More
The Importance of Recommending Books for Young People
Books have the potential to shape a young person's life and stay with them well into adulthood. Curating recommendations can't simply be a matter of sharing books you loved at that age. → Read More
France’s Beloved Short Story Dispensers Are Coming to America
In Francis Ford Coppola's Café Zoetrope in San Francisco, an odd machine stands in the middle of one of the dining rooms. It's a tall, black-and-orange cone with a lighted monolith sticking out of its top. The kiosk, built by the French publishing company Short Edition, is called a Short Story Dispenser. It's the first → Read More