Jennifer Paull

To celebrate Book Riot’s  first birthday on Monday, we’re running our best 50 posts from our first year this week. ...

Writer and editor Roger Angell turns 92 today. You may salute his many books on baseball. Or you may revere ...

I was a relative latecomer to the New Yorker, subscribing only after my post-college move to Manhattan. When I fell ...

On a recent trip to San Francisco, I stumbled onto a literary lagniappe: Matt, the incredibly well-read waiter at Café ...

This morning, in the subway, it happened again. The subtle lean, the breath on my shoulder, the eyes roaming where ...

Tipping my drink to our Riot Read for The Great Gatsby, it’s time for a Fitzgerald-friendly Dinner Table in the ...

Break out your best wobble-warble voice on August 15 to wish Julia Child a happy 100th birthday! In the world ...

If you’ve been on the wedding circuit this summer, you’ve likely gotten sprinkled with classic literature along with the confetti ...

These past few weeks, we’ve been splashing around in the milk of wonder, sharing our favorite quotes from THE GREAT ...

This winter, my Confidence Index on the film of Cloud Atlas was skeptical. OK, OK, I put on my Doubting ...

This past weekend, murmured poetry and glowing tents illuminated the British shoreline in an installation called Peace Camp. Have any ...

While nothing can ever replace the wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes in the funny pages, there is a contender for ...

If chapter three of The Great Gatsby doesn’t make you thirsty, you must be Carrie Nation. It plunges you into ...

Salma Abdelnour published her first book, Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut, this month. The memoir charts her ...

When in danger of a text tizzy at BEA, I retreated to the seductive arms of the art publishers’ booths. ...