Archive for: April, 2012
April 18, 2012
Recently Published: The Nature Principle by Richard Louv
As we continue to learn more and more about climate change, our outlook on our environmental future seems to get more and more pessimistic. When I envision the Earth in the future, …
April 12, 2012
Ask An Editor: Chuck Adams On Getting To Yes
Today we post our fourth installment in our Ask an Algonquin Editor series. Executive editor Chuck Adams shares what editors look for in manuscripts and how aspiring authors can work towards hearing “yes” …
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April 11, 2012
First Words: Allan Gurganus
In our continuing First Words series, we select works from First Words, a collection of early writings by famous authors edited by Paul Mandelbaum. Our previous posts have highlighted the work of Stephen King, …
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April 10, 2012
Publication Day: Kitty Cornered by Bob Tarte
Most cat lovers admit to having complicated feline friends. By “complicated,” I mean that your favorite pet manages to rearrange your life to run around his precise schedule (most active at 2 …
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April 9, 2012
Lucky 7: Armchair Travel
Armchair Travel Spring is here, and there’s no better time to dream about escaping to far off destinations. Paris, Venice, Buenos Aires, Hawaii—the world is your oyster, and these seven armchair travel …
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April 6, 2012
Recently Published: Pocket Kings by Ted Heller
You don’t have to play, or even understand, poker in order to love Ted Heller‘s third novel, Pocket Kings. In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds …
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April 4, 2012
The Hunger Games: battle of the book v. the movie
It takes a special type of person to attend a midnight premiere of anything. Being on the same sleep schedule as my fifteen-year-old cat (and possessing the same general level of excitement about life) …
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April 3, 2012
Publication Day: The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead
Robert Olmstead is the author of the national bestseller Coal Black Horse and Far Bright Star, which won the Western Writers of America Spur Award. An amazing writer whose work has been …
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