Spend Your Summer with Algonquin

Summer is here, and whether you’re headed to the beach, the pool, or your living room sofa, you’re going to need a great book to keep your summer reading hot. Here are the books everyone will be talking about. • • • The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason It’s June 1860 in London, and withinContinue reading

Page of the Day: Days 80 through 86

Welcome back to Page of the Day! For 100 Days, we are sharing 100 pages of 100 books – page by page, in order on our Instagram page. With each different day, a different book is featured. From advanced reader copies of upcoming releases to new paperback editions, you’ll be able to catch a glimpse –Continue reading

Page of the Day: Days 52 through 58

Page of the Day: Days 1 through 9

Welcome to Page of the Day! For 100 Days, we are sharing 100 pages of 100 books – page by page, in order on our Instagram page. With each different day, a different book is featured. From advanced reader copies of upcoming releases to new paperback editions, you’ll be able to catch a glimpse – andContinue reading

“I Loved Every Minute I Spent Reading Heather Abel’s The Optimistic Decade”

Heather Abel’s novel, The Optimistic Decade, captures a place (a summer camp in Colorado) and a time (the 1990s) with insight, wisdom, and humor. And it has captured the attention and affection of readers and reviewers, who are loving this big and bold, thoughtful and delightful debut. “A perceptive writer whose astute observations keepContinue reading

Something Wrong – An Essay by Heather Abel

Heather Abel, author of The Optimistic Decade—now in paperback—shares this essay about how she came to write her debut novel. • • • “Class of ’36, I guess we did something wrong.” I was in college when I first read that sentence, and its author—my grandmother—had just died. She’d been charismatic and uncompromising, equally criticalContinue reading

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