Fill the holiday season with tales and toddies, conversation and cocktails. These two books toast you and yours with merry reading — and even merrier drinking. Of All the Gin Joints by Mark Bailey, illustrated by Edward Hemingway True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem,Continue reading

It’s time to deck the halls and fill the bellies, and our friends at Artisan Books have the quintessential books to help you accomplish both. The projects in The Wreath Recipe Book are “inspiring and never overwhelming” (Los Angeles Times), and Sean Brock’s Heritage is, well, “the blue ribbon chef cookbook of the year, withoutContinue reading

Our director of marketing and sales, the inimitable Craig Popelars, is a self-proclaimed savant of the secondary characters from beloved holiday movies. He’ll see your Cindy Lou Who and raise you a Prancer. (After all, we do love a good character-driven story here at Algonquin.) As his email-stocking-stuffer gift to us all, Craig presents thisContinue reading

December temperatures might keep you trapped indoors, but this month’s Lucky Stars offer you the chance to reconnect with the outdoors from the warmth of your living room. Get the low-down of the oddly beautiful courtship of a Neohelix albolabris woodland snail, heed warnings of paralysis-inducing shrubs, and discover how Rowan trees were used to prevent the dead fromContinue reading

We’re excited. Booksellers are excited. Readers are excited. Let’s face it, there’s a lot of excitement. Whoa, Nelly, a heapin’ helping of excitement. What’s all the excitement, you ask? Today’s the official publication day for the paperback of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. Now in paperback! (Did we say “paperback”? It’sContinue reading

Do you suffer from Lake Effect Snow Syndrome? Do you have cabin fever from being stuck in your house behind a sixty-three-inch wall of snow? Are you trapped inside with nothing to read? We’ve got the remedy, The Remedy for Love, that is. (Though we’re temporarily referring to it as The Remedy for Buffalo orContinue reading