Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused on creating safe spaces for queer teens, mentorship, and providing test prep instruction free to students. Outside
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Scott Thorson — who dished on his romance with Liberace in his 1988 memoir “Behind the Candelabra” just a year after the famed pianist’s death — has died. Thorson died on August 16 — he’d been a patient at an L.A. healthcare facility, where he had been dealing with cancer and a heart condition. Thorson
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 150 Most Anticipated Books of the Fall It’s late August, which means it is time for lists of the fall’s Most Anticipated Books ™. I value Kirkus’ lists of anticipated books because as a
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The field of product design has witnessed a significant transformation with the advent of advanced visualization technologies. Historically, designers relied on physical models and basic 2D sketches to conceptualize and iterate on product ideas. However, the digital revolution introduced more sophisticated tools, significantly enhancing the visualization process and thereby, the entire design workflow. Today, product
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One of Luke Bryan‘s touring trucks got stuck under an overpass in Chicago over the weekend. The 18-wheeler was headed to his show at Wrigley Field when it failed to clear a center beam. Pictures show the stuck truck, which missed the lowest support by several inches. A few feet worth of trailer roof is peeled back, but
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Netflix’s possession horror movie The Deliverance centers on a single mother struggling to raise her kids while struggling with her inner demons, and that’s before the actual evil takes root in the new family home. Cycles of abuse lead to intense confrontations in this family, particularly between protagonist Ebony Jackson (Andra Day) and her mother Alberta
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Born into a family of readers, P.N. gained a love reading as a sort of herd mentality. This love of reading has remained a life long passion, resulting in an English Degree from The University of Houston in Houston, Texas. She normally reads three to four books at any given time, in the futile Sisyphean
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Who amongst the Pierpoint and Lumi cohort do we think is the least well-adjusted? I keep changing my mind. There’s Harper, perpetually sporting a chip on her shoulder the size of her home country—and willing to abandon all principles in service of it. There’s Yasmin, underestimated and adrift and always at the whims of rich
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Happy Friday, book-lovers. Unwind with some Book Riot stuff. Those times are long gone, as my eight-year-old loves to remind me, and so if you’re like me, and want some nostalgic reads or an escape from *waves hands* all of this, grab your favorite snack—bonus points if it’s something that was also around in the
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