August 3, 2010

More From Merge: The New Arcade Fire Album

Arcade Fire, the indie-rock band that surprised everyone with its meteoric rise, releases its third CD, “The Suburbs,” today. The album is already receiving amazing reviews and attention, like this New York …

August 2, 2010

Make A Toast At The Round Table

Algonquin Books can’t help but feel a special bond with Dorothy Parker and the members of the Algonquin Round Table, despite the fact that we are not, as many believe, named after …

July 30, 2010

The Best Author Photo:Sara Gruen gets a hug!

From Shelf Awareness: Sara Gruen with Tai, the elephant portraying Rosie, on the set of Water for Elephants. Gruen is the author of Water for Elephants (Algonquin) and Ape House, which will …

July 28, 2010

Water For Wednesdays

Spotlight on Christoph Waltz You’ve seen him in Inglourious Basterds–for which he won an Academy Award–and he is soon to appear on the big screen again in The Green Hornet. Right now, …

July 28, 2010

Beat the heat, Hemingway style

During these long, hot summer days, nothing feels quite so right as sitting down with a good book,  a chilled beverage at your side. We hand out suggestions about good books like …

July 26, 2010

Jam Sessionwith Heather Lende

No, not THAT kind of jam session. We’re talking about berry jam. Fresh-picked, home-made, sticky summer jam. Today, we have an excerpt about jamming from Heather Lende’s Take Good Care of the …

July 23, 2010

Melanie Sumner:The Great Book Launch

The Ghost of Milagro Creek by Melanie Sumner, out this month, is fast becoming a favorite of the summer. Set in a bario of Taos, New Mexico, the story has all the …

July 22, 2010

This Summer’s Hottest Frozen Treat!

“Extraordinary.”–The New York Times Book Review “Page after page, Stern embraces every outrageous possibility, in lush, cartwheeling sentences that layer deep mystery atop page-turning action atop Borscht Belt humor.”—Washington Post “A funny, …

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