Archive for: July, 2011
July 28, 2011
Why I Love Books: July Roundup
If there’s one thing I love more than reading books, it’s setting goals. In July I planned to learn palm-reading, make spanikopita, perfect my cartwheel, memorize about 200 dinosaur genera, and read …
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July 27, 2011
Dream Golf: Anticipating the Movie Golf in the Kingdom
We’re eagerly waiting the release of the forthcoming movie Golf in the Kingdom, starring Malcolm McDowell, Frances Fisher, and Julian Sands, among others. If you watch the trailer below, we think you’ll be …
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July 26, 2011
Heidi Durrow & Terry McMillan: Algonquin Book Club event, 8/18
Our next Algonquin Book Club event with Heidi Durrow and Terry McMillan is just about three weeks away! To help kick things off, we’re giving away 20 copies of Durrow’s critically acclaimed, …
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July 25, 2011
Algonquin Talks with John Searles, Today show Book Critic and Cosmo Editor-at-Large
How did you, the son of a truck driver, end up becoming an Editor-at-Large for Cosmo? How long have you been working there? I always dreamed of being a writer. But when …
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July 22, 2011
Traveling While Married Now Available in E-Book
Mary-Lou Weisman’s hilarious collection of essays, Traveling While Married, is now available as an e-book! The book traverses a lifetime of travel-a-deux, from honeymoon to elderhostel. It features illustrations by New Yorker …
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July 20, 2011
Drunken Botany 101
A few months ago, the Algonquin team received a rather innocuous looking box in the mail. Because we receive dozens of boxes each day, we weren’t too excited…until we opened it up …
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July 19, 2011
At Home With Algonquin: Three-Day Ribs from Man with a Pan
When I volunteered to do our next “At Home with Algonquin” blog series post, I clearly had lost my mind. It’s July in the South. It’s 100 degrees outside, and if I’m …
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July 18, 2011
Sneak Peek: Maman’s Homesick Pie by Donia Bijan
San Francisco chef Donia Bijan’s mouthwatering memoir, Maman’s Homesick Pie, will be landing in bookstores in October. To pique your appetite, we have some advanced praise and an excerpt below. In the …
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