January Lucky Stars: Book Your Year, Book Clubs

You’re making your lists. You’re checking them twice. You’re gonna … pick the Twelve Books of Book Club. We know that many of our dear book club friends are choosing their groups’ 2014 selections right now. So, here are some book-club-friendly Lucky Stars, perennial favorites for reading groups, choices to get the whole club readingContinue reading

On Writing: Martha Southgate and Elissa Schappell

Martha Southgate and Elissa Schappell talk marine biologists, mom stereotypes, sluts, and being labeled as “Women Writers.” Martha Southgate is the author of The Taste of Salt, as well as Third Girl from the Left and The Fall of Rome. Elissa Schappell is the author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls and Use Me. MarthaContinue reading

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

"10 Titles to Pick Up Now" in O: The Oprah Magazine

Martha Southgate’s The Taste of Salt and Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke are featured in O: The Oprah Magazine‘s “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.” Thanks, Oprah!

Martha Southgate on CNN

Martha Southgate, author of THE TASTE OF SALT, now available in bookstores, was on CNN yesterday to discuss her Entertainment Weeekly article on The Help. See the video below. You can read an excerpt from THE TASTE OF SALT here.

The Truth about the Civil Rights Era: Martha Southgate on The Help

The current issue of Entertainment Weekly (August 12) has a wonderful cover story on The Help, the blockbuster book that was made into a movie, opening soon. As part of the photo-heavy spread, Entertainment Weekly asked Algonquin author Martha Southgate, whose new novel The Taste of Salt publishes 9/27, to write about the book. HerContinue reading

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