The Wall Street Journal reviewed Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum this weekend, calling it, “[a] moving story.”  The review says, “Nussbaum wonderfully sweetens a stark subject with doses of idiosyncratic humor and hard-earned pathos…[she] upholds the individuality and integrity of her characters, never stooping to saccharine clichés or Hollywood manipulation.” So, we thought we’dContinue reading

Enter for your chance to win… Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence by David Samuel Levinson One writer’s mysterious death, another’s relentless quest for fame, and a bitter literary critic’s passion for manipulation drive the story of this haunting novel set in a small upstate New York college town in the 1990s. Catherine Strayed wonders ifContinue reading

Happy Earth Day!  Celebrate by entering to win a copy of … The Nature Principle by Richard Louv Does thinking about our planet’s future conjure up images of  a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature (think Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, only grimmer)? Well, Richard Louv, has a different vision. And the author of the landmark bestsellerContinue reading

Welcome to the final installment of Algonquin’s Giveaway Week! It’s been a week of wonderful books, but Friday we’re in love with Robert Olmstead’s The Coldest Night. “It’s extremes that rivet us in Olmstead’s searing seventh novel: the heaven of first love; the hell of the battlefield . . . Olmstead’s extraordinary language gives us newContinue reading

Our Giveaway Week has been one heckuva ride, so it’s the perfect time to Get in the Van with the  paperback edition of… The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison A devastating incident leaves Benjamin Benjamin with no wife, family, home, or livelihood, so he enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals ofContinue reading

Put your worries aside, yesterday was no joke.  It really is Giveaway Week here at Algonquin!  We’re continuing the series with a Happy Pub Day giveaway… What My Mother Gave Me edited by Elizabeth Benedict As Elizabeth Benedict writes in her introduction to this collection, “we may not know for quite some time which presentsContinue reading