For these days when the expression “When pigs fly . . .” never felt more appropriate, we’re swooping in with The Algonquin Reader. This Spring/Summer edition features original, smart, thoughtful, personal essays from bestselling authors Julia Alvarez, Jill McCorkle, Larry Watson, and Caroline Leavitt, along with newcomers Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Richard Farrell, and ShurtiContinue reading
The wonderful Julia Alvarez always has a way of helping us understand ourselves and our world a little bit better. In this video, she talks about the importance of reading and stories in our lives, particularly right now. “Stories help us survive the worst of times.” The best books, she says, don’t provide answers inContinue reading
As you celebrate Women’s History Month, pick up one of the wonderful books by and about women coming soon from Algonquin! These upcoming books include National Medal of Arts winner Julia Alvarez’s first novel for adults in almost 15 years, as well as new books from the wonderfully talented Jill McCorkle, Kendra Atleework, Heather Lende,Continue reading
We’re thrilled to announce Afterlife, the new novel by beloved writer Julia Alvarez. Julia has written multiple bestselling novels including How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, which has sold over one million copies worldwide and just celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. Afterlife, the first new adult novel inContinue reading
In In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez deals not only with the lives and deaths of four sisters, but the political oppression that surrounds them in the Dominican Republic. In this note, Alvarez describes the role of politics in writing and that of storytelling in the world as we know it. • •Continue reading
Whether you’re returning to old favorites or reading them for the first time, get these new paperback releases of three Julia Alvarez classics, as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of her seminal novel, In the Time of the Butterflies. Winner of the 2013 National Medal of Arts, Julia is well-known for her extraordinary storytelling, andContinue reading