Intrepid former Algonquin intern David Bradley and his trusty sidekick, Lucky the Leprechaun, hit the road this past summer for a tour of (almost all) the coolest, hippest, greatest indie bookstores in the United States. Join us for the journey… LEXINGTON, Kentucky — For a store that has only been around for five years, the Morris book shop is amazinglyContinue reading
A while back, we noticed a few of our authors share a common interest — beyond writing, that is. They love their cowboy boots, especially when they’re out on the dusty book-tour trail. We asked these cowboy-boot-loving authors to share their soles, as it were. Today, Michael Parker explains that there’s no fooling around whenContinue reading
Intrepid former Algonquin intern David Bradley and his trusty sidekick, Lucky the Leprechaun, hit the road this past summer for a tour of (almost all) the coolest, hippest, greatest indie bookstores in the United States. Join us for the journey… LEXINGTON, Kentucky — The Fourth of July is supposed to be fun. Mine was not.Continue reading
Gabrielle Zevin is one of the featured authors in the Twitter Fiction Festival, going on now through Sunday, March 16. Well, actually, Daniel Parish is a featured author. He’s fictional, but he’s featured. Parish is a character from her upcoming, greatly buzzed-about novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and Gabrielle is creating a storyContinue reading
The Twitter Fiction Festival, which started yesterday and goes through March 16, includes Algonquin authors Bill Roorbach, Sara Farizan and Gabrielle Zevin. Each author is creating an original work of fiction, meted out in 140-character installments. (Check them out. They’ve each done amazing things with the form, and their stories are fantastic.) Even if you’reContinue reading
Two strangers meet on a windswept car lot in West Texas. Marcus is fleeing the disastrous fallout of chasing a lifelong dream; Maria is returning to the hometown she fled years ago. They begin to argue over the car that they both desperately want—a low-slung sky-blue twenty-year-old Buick Electra. Marcus and Maria, after knowing eachContinue reading