Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books They've Read in 2011, Part 2

Donia Bijan, author of Maman’s Homesick Pie This was the year of displaced persons. The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer. The untold story of Hungarian Jews forced to flee as Europe’s tragedy unfolds, renders the unthinkable poetic. Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin. The story of Eilis who leaves her small village in Ireland in the 1950’sContinue reading

Algonquin Talks with Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis Star-Tribune Book Review Editor

For our latest installment in the Algonquin Talks series, we hear from Laurie Hertzel, book editor for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and author of News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist. Minneapolis is consistently voted as the most literary city in the country. What is it about that area that makes it so magically bookish? It’sContinue reading

Summer Reading List

It’s no secret that we Algonkians are voracious readers. This summer, we’re excited to dive into a wide variety of books, from the eclectic (The Decameron, Emily Post’s Etiquette, Yakuza Moon) to the wildly popular (Bossypants, A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Hunger Games) and everything in between. What are you looking forward toContinue reading

Algonquin Picks: Our Favorite Reads of 2010

It’s no secret that we’re all big readers at Algonquin–and not just of our own titles. Although my mother told me never to play favorites, at the end of each year, while trimming the tree or coming up with resolutions I inevitably fail to keep (one of these days I will learn how to surf),Continue reading

Booksellers Rock! Emma Straub, BookCourt

Emma Straub is a native New Yorker. Her debut collection of short stories, Other People We Married, will be published by FiveChapters Books in February. She works at BookCourt, one of Brooklyn’s finest independent bookstores, and will smile at you so hard that you have to look away. She also likes to bake cookies, tweet,Continue reading

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