Too dang cold to go to book group? Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, VA, is hosting its first-ever Twitter Book Club tonight at 6 p.m. Everyone can participate, no matter where you live! You won’t have to leave the house–or even change out of your pajamas–to join a lively discussion about the current #1 New YorkContinue reading

What a year it’s been for Algonquin! Allow us to pat ourselves on the back when we say we had FIVE New York Times bestsellers in 2009. If you haven’t checked ’em out, what are you waiting for? Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Mudbound by Hillary Jordan A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick WickedContinue reading

With almost the entire nation deep in this wintertime cold snap, today is the perfect on-sale date for the paperback edition of The New York Times bestseller A Reliable Wife, set in the bitter-cold winter of Wisconsin in 1909. Borders recently interviewed debut author Robert Goolrick–you can watch the interview here, and read the firstContinue reading

Friday morning, the entire Algonquin staff in Chapel Hill worked together to get 350 packages of A Reliable Wife (and a fleece blanket to read it under) out to bookstores and booksellers across the country. We wanted to make sure they had a chance to read the book in paperback before it goes on saleContinue reading

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s Winter-Inspired Book Booty Giveaway!  The first place winner of the blanket, mug, and a copy of A Reliable Wife is Erica with: Five Features of a “Reliable Spouse” 1) He can’t be Tiger Woods, 2) or Jon Gosselin, 3) or Mark Sanford. 4) He also needs toContinue reading

On a cold winter night, there really isn’t anything better than a fire roaring in the fireplace, a sleeved blanket (so your arms don’t get cold when you turn the pages), and a copy of Robert Goolrick‘s A Reliable Wife. So, to launch the paperback edition of this “chillingly good” novel, we decided to create embroidered AlgonquinContinue reading