Algonquin talks with Suzanne Berne about her new memoir, Missing Lucile. Get Berne’s thoughts on family secrets, her grandmother’s French fling, and the battle between fact and fiction. 1. What was your inspiration for writing Missing Lucile? My father’s mother, Lucile Kroger Berne, died when he was a little boy and he never got over it. Continue reading

Tuesday the 5th was “Algonquin Night” at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC. If you’ve never been to The Regulator, it’s a big shop with a deceptively narrow storefront. Do not be fooled. There’s a long front room and a flight of stairs that leads to a bottom level, just as packed with good booksContinue reading

This past Friday, September 24th, at New York City’s Housing Works, guest editor Amy Hempel, series editor Kathy Pories, and contributor Wells Tower gathered together to celebrate Algonquin’s 25th anniversary of NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH. The reading was packed, with well over 100 people in attendance! Housing Works was generous enough to donate specialtyContinue reading

Welcome to the first of “Algonquin Talks,” our series of interviews with book reviewers, producers, and bloggers. Ron Charles, the esteemed fiction editor and weekly critic at the Washington Post, is one of the first book reviewers I met when I started working at Algonquin in 2000 and I can’t say enough good things aboutContinue reading

Jay Varner, author of the brilliant memoir Nothing Left to Burn, offers some insights on the origins of his memoir, the tricky business of writing about a small town, good books, and good music, as well as a nod to Saved By The Bell. Enjoy! I’m always intrigued by epigraphs and the one in yourContinue reading

Some Submissions Guidelines and Conspiracy Speculations . It’s a tough world out there for writers: incomplete manuscripts cluttering our workspace, relatives asking what our real jobs are, and our hole-in-the-wall coffeehouses being overrun with sentient robots diabolically posing as hipsters and biding their time until the machines take over. (Okay, so maybe that’s a stretch.Continue reading