We’ve been hunkered down all day here in Chapel Hill, where we’re taking on the front end of Winter Storm Jonas. The accumulating white precipitation of all forms has inspired us to come up with this reading list for a snowy day. (Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will keep us from our appointed reading.)Continue reading

Nothing says Summer like sitting outside and reading a paperback. Especially when the book is set during the dead of winter. During the Storm of the Century. Seriously, it’s like air conditioning for the mind. Particularly when the books is Bill Roorbach’s The Remedy for Love — new in paperback! Newsday called it “a page-turner,Continue reading

Today is National Iced Tea Day, of course. This being the South, we have plenty of cool, refreshing iced tea — make that, sweet tea — in our office. But on a sunny, sweltering day like today, iced tea is meant to be sipped and savored, gulped and guzzled from a tall glass with aContinue reading

Do you suffer from Lake Effect Snow Syndrome? Do you have cabin fever from being stuck in your house behind a sixty-three-inch wall of snow? Are you trapped inside with nothing to read? We’ve got the remedy, The Remedy for Love, that is. (Though we’re temporarily referring to it as The Remedy for Buffalo orContinue reading

We’ve matched up the first lines of our Fall 2014 fiction with the titles from which they come. This handy-dandy guide also serves as the answer key for the Fall’s First Lines quiz in our new Inside Algonquin newsletter. (Have you signed up for the Inside Algonquin newsletter? Oh, please do! It’s great fun.) 1.“I’mContinue reading

This month for our October Lucky Stars, we present men, men like any other men, only moreso, to paraphrase a fictional man like Rick Blaine. Each of these e-books — just $1.99 apiece throughout the month — introduces us to a man figuring out who he is, what his character is in some unusual circumstances.Continue reading