Non-Fiction

Short Works: Essays and Humor

Richie has had humor pieces published in McSweeney’s Internet TendencyThe Village Voice, TV Guide, Family Circle and The NY Times Opinion page, among other publications. His piece, “The Screenwriter’s Vacation,” was included in the anthology Best Travel Writing of 2005.

His most recent essays, including, “Tax The Rich, Just Don’t Tell Them,” and “Unemployed People Need More Stress,” can be found on Medium at https://rchevat.medium.com/

Young Reader Adaptations

Richie has adapted best-selling non-fiction books for young readers, including:

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronksi

Our Choice by Vice President Al Gore

The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

Your Food is Fooling You by David Kessler

Young Reader Non-Fiction

Richie has also written and edited numerous non-fiction books for young readers, including books about: marbles, manners, Malcolm X, mag-lev trains, the Mekong River, comets, calendars, computers, cathedrals, grizzly bears, baboons, ancient Greece, garbage, quipu (the Inca system of knot writing), vaqueros, volcanoes, DNA, raptors, the Lascaux Cave, suspension bridges, steam engines, asteroids, space travel and a bunch of other things.