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Whether you’re headed to work, school, or just the comfort of your couch, compose (hah!) an awesomely bookish look for the season of curl-up-and-read. Get leggings + any pair of socks for $20 this week only.
And have you seen these new totes? You’ll be the coolest cat at book club.
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Today’s The Stack is sponsored by Thrill Me by Benjamin Percy.
In Thrill Me, best-selling author Benjamin Percy dissolves the boundaries between literary and genre fiction. He explores how Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense. He also makes clear the literary importance of “exploding helicopters, giant sharks, robots with laser eyes, pirates, poltergeists, were-kittens, demons, slow zombies, fast zombies, talking unicorns, probe-wielding martians, sexy vampires, barbarians in hairy underwear…”Percy’s distinctive blend of anecdotes and advice, round out a perfectly thrilling roadmap for writers and readers hoping to understand how and why the best fiction keeps us riveted to the edge of our seats
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by National Geographic Partners, LLC.
Featuring the most liked, commented on, and favorite photos from National Geographic’s iconic Instagram account, @NatGeo is a winning combination of expertly curated and favorite National Geographic photographs from the account. National Geographic, or @natgeo, is the world’s top media brand on Instagram, with over 61 million followers and more than two billion likes on its 12,000+ images posted. The cumulative voice of the contributing National Geographic photographers will take you on a visual journey that has already inspired millions. See the world through the eyes of National Geographic photographers with @NatGeo.
We have one prize pack for one lucky Riot reader, which includes:
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
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In honor of Book Club Month, Hachette Book Group is offering a rotating selection of new and classic Book Club favorites at amazing prices. These backlist gems are sure to inspire conversation in your book club with free reading guide resources available on the Hachette Book Group website.
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New Totes!
Declare your love for the classics or pack up your favorite books-and-booze pairing in one of our new totes! While you’re at it, compose a most literary look when you match leggings + any pair of socks for $20.
POTUS’s Essential Reads
President Obama is serving as a visiting editor of Wired magazine in November, but prelude to that, he has given them a list of 10 books everyone should read. It’s a mix of a couple of more recent titles and some all-timers, which is a bit Obama in a nutshell–a little pop-culture, a little old-time politics.
Bob Dylan Isn’t There
Here it is a couple of weeks after Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature, and Dylan still hasn’t said…anything. No acknowledgment of any kind. And the Nobel committee isn’t happy. At this point, it’s not clear that Dylan will show up for the ceremony, take the money, or have anything to do with the most prestigious artistic award in the world. If I were a betting man, I would not put a thin dime on Dylan doing anything more than what he has already done.
Claudia Rankine To Open Racial Imaginary Institute
Fresh off her Macarthur “genius award,” Claudia Rankine is planning to start a institution that will be a “space which allows us to show art, to curate dialogues, have readings, and talk about the ways in which the structure of white supremacy in American society influences our culture.”
It isn’t clear yet what form it will take, but it will be located in lower Manhattan. Also, whiteness will be an explicit topic, which isn’t (or perhaps even often) a focus of projects that center on race. Culture, Rankine, thinks is at the leading edge of how people talk and think about race, so policy isn’t currently part of the plan.
Thanks to TryAudiobooks.com for sponsoring This Week in Books.
Listen While You Cook! While spending hours in the kitchen prepping meals for the holidays, put on a good audiobook and let the story help you along.
Cooking for Picasso and The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living are great cooking memoirs or you can listen to Where Am I Now? Read by Mara Wilson herself! Let audiobooks be your secret ingredient this holiday season.
Book Riot Live 2016 is a two-day convention celebrating books and the reading life, attended by the most enthusiastic readers we’ve had the pleasure to encounter. It will take place on November 12 & 13 at Metropolitan West in New York City, and we’d love for you to join us! We’re pleased to offer up to 2 (two) press passes to your publication.
2015’s Book Riot Live was a smash success with both fans and speakers. There were more than a thousand attendees across two days, and speakers included bestselling authors Margaret Atwood, N.K. Jemisin, Alexander Chee, and Daniel José Older. Check out some of the responses to Book Riot Live 2015.
Unlike many other literary events our programming is cross-genre, with fiction and non-fiction writers from all corners of the book world paired together to discuss their craft, talk about the issues facing publishing, compete for the crown in Nerd Jeopardy, and more. Not sure what that looks like? Visit the Schedule page, where you can see our the full program. Our 2016 speaker line-up includes Walter Mosley, Mara Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Valentine De Landro, and Sara Farizan among many others; the full speaker list is available here.
If you would like to cover Book Riot Live, please email events director Jenn Northington at contact@bookriotlive.com, and registration details will be sent along. Thanks for considering, and hope to see you in November!
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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio.
Listen While You Cook! While spending hours in the kitchen prepping meals for the holidays, put on a good audiobook and let the story help you along. Cooking for Picasso and The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living are great cooking memoirs or you can listen to WHERE AM I NOW? Read by Mara Wilson herself! Let audiobooks be your secret ingredient this holiday season.
Visit TryAudiobooks.com/cooking for a free download and get started!
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Pair Leggings + Socks for $20
Whether you’re headed to work, school, or just the comfort of your couch, compose (hah!) an awesomely bookish look for the season of curl-up-and-read. Get leggings + any pair of socks for $20 this week only.