William Eggleston, Mississippi, 1976 © Eggleston Artistic Trust On the eve of the 1976 election, William Eggleston traveled to Plains, Georgia, to photograph the hometown…
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Month: November 2020
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for November 1, 2020
This edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Scholastic. Today’s Featured Deals $1.99The Bone Witch by Ran ChupecoGet This Deal $1.99Bringing Down the Duke by…
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The Feminine Pillar of Male Chauvinism
In her column, Re-Covered, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn’t be. If the Australian writer and critic Thelma Forshaw is remembered…
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for November 28, 2020
This edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by The Antiquarian Sticker Book. Today’s Featured Deals $2.99Parachutes by Kelly YangGet This Deal $1.99The Memory Police by…
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Black Friday 2020: The 10 Best Black Friday Deals for Writers
Looking for a gift for a writer in your life? Or maybe a deal on the best tools and courses for writers? This Black Friday,…
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The Libraries of My Life
The Chemists’ Club library in New York, New York, ca. 1920. Photo courtesy of Science History Institute. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. I was thirteen…
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Tour The TWILIGHT House Tonight From Your Own Home
Halloween may look different this year, but it doesn’t mean you have to do nothing at all to celebrate the haunting season. This is especially…
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Redux: A Dining Room Deserted
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have…
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 28, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by POPPYPUB and KPIPA. Today’s Featured Deals $1.99The Foretelling by Alice HoffmanGet This Deal $1.99The Bookish Life of…
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Notes from the Bathysphere
William Beebe and Gloria Hollister inspect the bathysphere. © Wildlife Conservation Society. Reproduced by permission of the WCS Archives. I’m writing from the outskirts of…
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