Archive for: September, 2010
September 30, 2010
Happy Birthday Megan! A Few of My Favorite Things
In honor of my recent arrival at Algonquin (and, let’s be honest, my birthday week), Algonquin has been nice enough to let me cap off the month by sharing a few of …
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September 29, 2010
Hempel. Tower. Pories. Housing Works, 9/24
This past Friday, September 24th, at New York City’s Housing Works, guest editor Amy Hempel, series editor Kathy Pories, and contributor Wells Tower gathered together to celebrate Algonquin’s 25th anniversary of NEW …
September 28, 2010
Short Story Pick of the Month
What begins as a fantastical story of a small Southern town’s populace living in trees after a devastating flood becomes a serious and sensitive portrayal of a strained marriage told through the …
September 27, 2010
Algonquin Talks with Ron Charles, Washington Post Book Critic
Welcome to the first of “Algonquin Talks,” our series of interviews with book reviewers, producers, and bloggers. Ron Charles, the esteemed fiction editor and weekly critic at the Washington Post, is one …
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September 24, 2010
Celebrate 25 years at Housing Works Bookstore tonight!
5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND TONIGHT’S NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH READING AT HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE . 1. Award-winning author Amy Hempel may bring her dog. . 2. You may get …
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September 23, 2010
Read This: Nothing Left To Burn Excerpt
Jay Varner is on fire this week! (Sorry, we couldn’t resist … ) . Appearing at trade shows from New Jersey to Florida, being interviewed by the likes of Entertainment Weekly, The …
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September 22, 2010
AN INTERVIEW WITH Jay Varner
Jay Varner, author of the brilliant memoir Nothing Left to Burn, offers some insights on the origins of his memoir, the tricky business of writing about a small town, good books, and …
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September 21, 2010
nothing left to burn video trailer
This week we’ll be featuring the beautiful, poignant, searing memoir Nothing Left to Burn by Jay Varner. . One of our favorite authors, John Jeremiah Sullivan, wrote: . “The son reports on fires …
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