What We’re Reading
January 20, 2011
What We’re Reading: Just Kids by Patti Smith
“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”—Patti Smith Patti Smith’s Just …
January 12, 2011
What We’re Reading: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Over the fall, while helping to search for quotes to accompany the spreads in Algonquin’s annual Out on the Porch calendar, I stumbled upon a passage from Breakfast at Tiffany’s that I …
January 3, 2011
What We’re Reading: Columbine by Dave Cullen
When I first read the reviews of Dave Cullen’s nonfiction book, Columbine, I was impressed, but something held me back from picking up a copy. Do I really want to read an account …
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December 21, 2010
What We’re Reading: At Home: A History of Private Life
I am the unlikeliest person to be reading this book, for three reasons: 1) as anyone who knows me well can report, I have a certain deficiency in the housekeeping department; 2) …
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December 10, 2010
Algonquin Picks: Our Favorite Reads of 2010
It’s no secret that we’re all big readers at Algonquin–and not just of our own titles. Although my mother told me never to play favorites, at the end of each year, while …
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December 7, 2010
What We’re Reading: Bound by Antonya Nelson
Before I started to write this post, I searched for “Antonya” in my Gmail account, just to see how many times I had discussed Antonya Nelson in email conversations. Thirteen. In the …
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November 29, 2010
What We’re Reading: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
I discovered the writing of Lydia Davis during my freshman year at Sarah Lawrence College, when a friend loaned me a copy of her first short story collection, Break it Down, and …
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