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December 20, 2010
Booksellers Rock! Rob Dougherty, Clinton Book Shop
What books recently rocked my world: Nothing Left To Burn by Jay Varner (suck-up alert), Room by Emma Donoghue, Innocent Monster by Reed Farrel Coleman, and Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. …
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December 15, 2010
Win This: Wicked Plants Seed Collection
As some of you know, I planted a poison garden while I was working on Wicked Plants. I’d never grown, much less seen, some of the plants in the book, and it’s …
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December 9, 2010
READ THIS: A Chanukah Essay
December is one of my favorite times of year. For many of us, it means time to bring out the Bing Crosby songbook, time to unearth the scary Christmas napkins that look …
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December 6, 2010
Booksellers Rock! Emma Straub, BookCourt
Emma Straub is a native New Yorker. Her debut collection of short stories, Other People We Married, will be published by FiveChapters Books in February. She works at BookCourt, one of Brooklyn’s …
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December 3, 2010
In Memoriam: In the Time of the Butterflies
Algonquin author Julia Alvarez, who grew up hearing stories about the Mirabal sisters, and whose family fled the Dominican Republic only months before the tragic deaths, immortalized the sisters’ story in her …
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November 23, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving! From my mom…
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! I’m flying out to see my parents this afternoon, but wanted to get in one last post before the holiday. Thinking about the best parts of Thanksgiving, what I’m …
November 19, 2010
Booksellers Rock! Michele Filgate, RiverRun Books
Michele Filgate is the Events Coordinator at RiverRun Books in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She recently made New Hampshire Magazine‘s “It List” for 2010. Michele is a writer and a book critic, and …
November 17, 2010
Like My Jacket? Paperback versus Hardback
This month marks the publication of the beautiful paperback edition of Lauren Grodstein’s critically acclaimed novel A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, an Algonquin staff favorite. Lauren’s suburban tragedy charts a father’s fall …
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