Algonquin cordially invites you to our cocktail party to end all cocktail parties — spanning space, time, and chapters. Time: Always, forever, now showing. Where: Hollywood, The Golden Era. The Hosts: Mark Bailey and Edward Hemingway who have welcomed us all into their new book, Of All the Gin Joints. “This book is like being atContinue reading
We’ve matched up the first lines of our Fall 2014 fiction with the titles from which they come. This handy-dandy guide also serves as the answer key for the Fall’s First Lines quiz in our new Inside Algonquin newsletter. (Have you signed up for the Inside Algonquin newsletter? Oh, please do! It’s great fun.) 1.“I’mContinue reading
Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo talks spies, perspective, setting, and striking a balance with Brock Clarke, author of the upcoming novel The Happiest People in the World. “The parallel universe Clarke creates … is both our world and not, and like his baffled, yearning characters, we navigate it with surprise and wonder,” Russo saysContinue reading
This month for our October Lucky Stars, we present men, men like any other men, only moreso, to paraphrase a fictional man like Rick Blaine. Each of these e-books — just $1.99 apiece throughout the month — introduces us to a man figuring out who he is, what his character is in some unusual circumstances.Continue reading
Because authors are basically paid to put words in the mouths of other (often non-existent) people, it seems perfectly reasonable that Bill Roorbach held an imaginary dinner party to celebrate his upcoming novel, The Remedy for Love. Obviously. The “guests” are real people, but then Bill gathered them and these questions together for this dinnerContinue reading
We’re all a-flutter for today’s official publication of The Birds of Pandemonium! With so much excitement for Michele Raffin’s book, it is quite a happy happy pub day. Indeed, Michele just finished an hour-long chat with on The Diane Rehm Show with Diane Rehm calling the inhabitants of Pandemonium Aviaries some of “the most beautifulContinue reading