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Rebecca Joines Schinsky

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Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the Chief of Staff for Riot New Media Group and a co-host of the Book Riot Podcast. She can be reached at rebecca@riotnewmedia.com.

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Slow news week, but we keep on keeping on.

🏆 Meet the 2025 Hugo Award winners

🍁 These are Goodreads users’ most anticipated books of fall.

🚫 Romance books are the next big book banning target.

🍿 Here are the most interesting literary adaptations coming this season.

And here’s a big juicy collection of links from around the bookish internet.

Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Chief of Staff

Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the Chief of Staff for Riot New Media Group and a co-host of the Book Riot Podcast. She can be reached at rebecca@riotnewmedia.com.

View All posts by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

  • A new generation of disabled writers isn’t interested in inspiring readers
  • Adriana Trigiani’s home library is 😍
  • Skibidi and delulu are among the 6,000 words added to Cambridge Dictionary this year
  • A new adaptation of The Cat in the Hat voiced by Bill Hader will hit theaters in 2026
  • Novelist Greg Iles has died at 65
  • There are a lot of insects named after writers
  • These are the winners of the 2025 American Manga Awards
  • 6 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month
  • Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Boggs’s new biography of James Baldwin
  • One author discusses why she used ChatGPT to write an award-winning novel
  • Rick Riordan reveals when the final Percy Jackson book is coming
  • Dua Lipa’s lifelong love of reading led her to start a book club
  • Hilton Als on the essential James Baldwin books
  • Holes author Louis Sachar has written a novel for adults

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