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Selected Shorts: The Best American Short Stories 2014
(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...
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2014 – The RB Lit Review
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 –...
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Story Time: A Reflection on Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
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...
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Laura van den Berg in Conversation with Catherine Lacey at McNally Jackson
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...
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BookExpo America 2015
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...
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Marie-Helene Bertino & Laura van den Berg at Community Bookstore
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...
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2015 – The RB Year-in-Review
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...
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Table of Contents, Volume Four (March 2016)
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,...
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