The Book-of-the-Month Club announced today that Robert Goolrick’s A Reliable Wife is the 2009 winner of their annual First Fiction Award! The Book-of-the-Month First Fiction Award is granted annually by the Book-of-the-Month Club editorial board to recognize an outstanding first work of fiction in the English language. The First Fiction Award represents the high standardContinue reading

Robert Goolrick‘s reading for the Desert Mountain Book Club in Arizona last week. A Reliable Wife is still on the NY Times Paperback Bestseller list, this week at #5! Visit the website for A Reliable Wife to read an excerpt, download discussion questions, and watch a video interview with Robert Goolrick. Thanks to Phyllis Lerner,Continue reading

Robert Goolrick’s novel A Reliable Wife has been at the top of The New York Times bestseller list since it was released in early January. If you haven’t had a chance to see the author during his nationwide bookstore tour for this title, watch the video below to hear him read! Click here to readContinue reading

Too dang cold to go to book group? Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, VA, is hosting its first-ever Twitter Book Club tonight at 6 p.m. Everyone can participate, no matter where you live! You won’t have to leave the house–or even change out of your pajamas–to join a lively discussion about the current #1 New YorkContinue reading

What a year it’s been for Algonquin! Allow us to pat ourselves on the back when we say we had FIVE New York Times bestsellers in 2009. If you haven’t checked ’em out, what are you waiting for? Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Mudbound by Hillary Jordan A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick WickedContinue reading

With almost the entire nation deep in this wintertime cold snap, today is the perfect on-sale date for the paperback edition of The New York Times bestseller A Reliable Wife, set in the bitter-cold winter of Wisconsin in 1909. Borders recently interviewed debut author Robert Goolrick–you can watch the interview here, and read the firstContinue reading