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Table of Contents, Volume Four (March 2016)

April 12, 2016 by Dani

Because I am addicted to offbeat, curated literary events, I’ve been trying to attend a Table of Contents event at Egg for months – and I finally did it! The brainchild of Egg’s head chef Evan Hanczor, the series started as a full meal themed around a novel. The updated format of the series, however, has each event feature a lineup of contemporary authors reading from their recent work, along with small dishes inspired by the excerpts. The roster on March 16th (“Volume […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Books, Catherine Lacey, Dani Lencioni, Egg, egg restaurant, Evan Hanczor, Events, Features, Food, John Wray, readings, Recaps, Sarah Gerard, Table of Contents

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2015 – The RB Year-in-Review

December 31, 2015 by Drew

2015 is over, for better or worse (better – definitely for better), and so this means it’s time to recap! WOO! VITAL STATS, YEAR FIVE: Books Read: 159 (sweet literary jesus) Pages Read: 50,133 Average Rating: 4.02 (hey, wow, pretty good year I guess) Highest Rating(s): – 6 out of 5.  There were six books that took top honors for me this year, five of them out in 2015 – making those, I suppose, my top 5. They’re presented here in chronological order, with the […]

Categories: Features • Tags: 2015, Best Books, Best of, Best of 2015, Books, Dani Lencioni, Features, Recap, stats, Superlatives, year in review

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Marie-Helene Bertino & Laura van den Berg at Community Bookstore

November 3, 2015 by Dani

To celebrate the paperback release of her first novel, Marie-Helene Bertino asked Laura van den Berg to join her at the adorable Community Bookstore in Park Slope for an evening of reading and conversation. I just finished 2AM at the Cat’s Pajamas and loved it. Find Me was my favorite read of 2014, and I devoured all LvdB stories I could get my hands on shortly thereafter. As I waited for the authors to take their places, I watched the bookstore’s resident cat […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas, Books, Community Bookstore, Conversations, Dani Lencioni, Dogs, Events, Features, Find Me, Laura van den Berg, Marie-Helene Bertino, Recaps, Writing

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BookExpo America 2015

May 31, 2015 by Drew

THE BIG STACK. It didn’t fall over, which I thought was impressive. Another year, another BEA. Although not quite the same as it was last year: indeed, the gods of commerce have spoken and decreed that, lo, BEA shall be 2.5 days and BookCon shall have a full 2 all unto itself! Tremble before ReedPop! (Having had a pretty miserable time at the BookCon/BEA overlap day last year, I wasn’t about to drop additional money to get in this year […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: BEA15, BookExpo America, BookExpo2015, Books, Dani Lencioni, Drew Broussard, Events, Features, Javits Center, Lots of Books, Recap, Recaps

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Laura van den Berg in Conversation with Catherine Lacey at McNally Jackson

February 19, 2015 by Dani

In the past month, I’ve discovered two new favorite books. Find Me by Laura van den Berg and Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey. Van den Berg (henceforth known here as LvdB) is getting crazy good press right now – Salon thinks she’s “the best young writer in America,” and I probably agree. Both books garnered 5+ ratings here on the blog. So I’m not alone! Much to my delight, the NYC launch of Find Me entailed a conversation between LvdB and Lacey at McNally Jackson. And it was great! Everything you […]

Categories: Events • Tags: 5+, Catherine Lacey, Dani Lencioni, Events, Find Me, FSG, Laura van den Berg, McNally Jackson, Nobody Is Ever Missing, Recaps

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Story Time: A Reflection on Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

February 9, 2015 by Dani

Trilogies are odd. They’re not always big enough to span the sort of time and adventure that longer series do, but they’re split into parts for a reason, right? So sometimes in reading trilogies I find myself wanting the whole scoop all at once. I want to have the bird’s-eye-view so I know what I’m dealing with. I suppose you could say I’m a greedy reader. THUS: Drew and I finished the MaddAddam Trilogy at the same time, so while his excellent […]

Categories: Features • Tags: Dani Lencioni, Faith, Features, Fiction, Future, History, Hope, MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Religion, Storytelling, Technology, The Year of the Flood

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2014 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2014 by Drew

And so, friends, we come to the end of another year.  So many books read, so much to recap – so let’s dive in. VITAL STATS, YEAR FOUR: Books Read: 137 Pages Read: 48,900 (an exact round number – weiiiird) Average Rating: 3.89 (a definite drop from the last two years, although this may reflect a somewhat broader scope of reading? or sharper critical thinking? who knows.) Highest Rating(s): – 6 out of 5 Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) was maybe the […]

Categories: Features • Tags: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Bad Books, Broken Monsters, China Miéville, Dani Lencioni, David Mitchell, DC Pierson, Edgar Cantero, Embassytown, Eric Setiawan, FSG Originals Series, good Books, Harper Perennial, Haruki Murakami, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, Kafka on the Shore, Karen Russell, Katherine Faw Morris, Lauren Beukes, Lena Dunham, Meg Wolitzer, Murakami 2014, Nick Harkaway, Not That Kind of Girl, Of Bees and Mist, Olive Editions, Parties, Shirley Jackson, So Many Damn Books, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Bone Clocks, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never had to, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The City and the City, The Interestings, The Marriage Plot, The Morning News, The People in the Trees, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Supernatural Enhancements, The Tournament of Books 2014, Tigerman, Vonnegut 201x, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Woolf 2015, year in review, You Should Have Known, Young God

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Selected Shorts: The Best American Short Stories 2014

November 20, 2014 by Dani

(ed. note – after much time thinking about it and a happy arrangement of circumstances that demanded it, we’re thrilled to bring you our first guest-written post here at RB.  Dani’s bio can be found on the new contributor page.  An immense thanks to Symphony Space and Selected Shorts – and to this new addition to the crew!) I should disclose two biases, which are that I love short stories, and I love being read aloud to. This is to say, I […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Amy Ryan, BASS14, Best American Short Stories 2014, Dani Lencioni, Dylan Baker, Events, Fiction, Guest Post, Jennifer Egan, Lauren Groff, Recaps, Selected Shorts, Short Stories, Symphony Space, T.C. Boyle, The Best American Short Stories

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