It’s New in Paperback Wednesday here at Algonquin, and we’ve got two delectable PBs with J (paperbacks served with joy) for you. The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor: Hannah was tall and graceful, naturally pretty, spirited and impulsive, the upper-class young woman who picked, of all men, Lovell—the introverted climate scientist who thought he couldContinue reading

Bernie Madoff’s name is synonymous with swindle. Boston con man Charles Ponzi is infamous for the Ponzi scheme. But there are plenty of lesser-known con men who were as successful and audacious, if not quite as notorious. Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception,  presents five such con men — including Leo Koretz, the master swindlerContinue reading