January 30, 2012
Get ready for our next Algonquin Book Club event coming up on March 3 at 7:00 p.m. EST! Tune into the live webcast to hear Stephen King in conversation with Lauren Grodstein, …
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Looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day dessert to show your loved one how much you care? Try this amazing raspberry-almond trifle that’s guaranteed to give any dessert-lover weak knees. (And don’t be …
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Name: Kelly Justice Bookstore: Fountain Bookstore Title: Boss Lady Brief Bio: Kelly bought The Fountain in January 2008 after managing it since 2000 and she has been a professional independent bookseller since …
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West of Here: Now in Paperback" />We’re pleased to announce that Jonathan Evison‘s New York Times bestseller West of Here is now available in paperback! Evison’s epic novel received a boatload of accolades last year: Hudson Booksellers’ Book of …
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Joseph Skibell is no stranger when it comes to accolades and awards. Recently, his novel A Curable Romantic won the prestigious Sami Rohr Choice Award (which comes with a $25,000 grand prize). …
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As Carl Phillips said, “The truest poetry speaks to us not as documentation . . . but as confirmation—echo—of something essential to being human, flawed, mortal.” Because we Algonkians are voracious readers …
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When I was a kid, my dad–a doctor–worked insane hours, as doctors are wont to do. When he was home, our time together primarily consisted of his reading to me and my …
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North Koreans have only seven options of government-approved hair cuts. They have loudspeakers in their homes that relay government propaganda 24/7 (“The Inuit people are a tribe of isolated savages that live …
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What would make fifty authors hightail it down to the tiny town of Jefferson, Texas for the chance to dress like clowns, 80’s prom queens, fortunetellers, circus animals and big haired divas …
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