Posts Tagged: Amy Stewart

December 14, 2011

Algonquin’s Guide to Gift Giving, Winter 2011

Algonquin’s Guide to Gift Giving, Winter 2011

I always wait until the last minute to buy Christmas and Chanukah presents for my family. It’s not because shopping slips my mind, or because I forget about the holidays or my …

October 14, 2011

Wicked Bugs: Amy Stewart in the BBC Gardening Blog

Wicked Bugs: Amy Stewart in the BBC Gardening Blog

I generally don’t consider a bug that eats a plant to be wicked. Plants are, after all, the food supply for many insects; I’m hardly going to blame them for eating their …

July 20, 2011

Drunken Botany 101

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 …

July 12, 2011

On Writing: Amy Stewart and Paul Collins

On Writing: Amy Stewart and Paul Collins

Amy Stewart and Paul Collins talk belles-lettres, the art of nonfiction, e-publishing, colonial mixed drinks, and cramming for your own interviews. Amy Stewart is the acclaimed author of Wicked Plants, Wicked Bugs, …

May 6, 2011

Mother’s Day Roundup

Mother’s Day Roundup

My mother lives by the motto “There’s no such thing as too many books.” You can usually find her nose-deep in a battered paperback, sitting in our dog Chester’s favorite armchair, which …

May 5, 2011

Amy Stewart: “A funny thing has happened with <i>Wicked Plants</i>”

Amy Stewart: “A funny thing has happened with Wicked Plants

A funny thing has happened with Wicked Plants. It’s turned into a road show. A carnival of sorts. Social networking, nineteenth-century style. A year before Wicked Plants was released, I was hanging …

May 3, 2011

Publication Day: <i>Wicked Bugs</i>

Publication Day: Wicked Bugs

Amy Stewart, author of the New York Times bestsellers Wicked Plants and Flower Confidential, is back with her newest book, Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army and Other Diabolical Insects. …

February 11, 2011

From Amy Stewart: “Annie Proulx, Garden Writer”

From Amy Stewart: “Annie Proulx, Garden Writer”

. We know ANNIE PROULX as the straight-shooting author of POSTCARDS, THE SHIPPING NEWS, and OPEN RANGE (which includes the masterpiece “Brokeback Mountain”). If you haven’t read her work, you must. She …