Posts Tagged: Jennifer Egan
December 7, 2011
Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books They’ve Read in 2011, Part 2
Donia Bijan, author of Maman’s Homesick Pie This was the year of displaced persons. The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer. The untold story of Hungarian Jews forced to flee as Europe’s tragedy …
September 7, 2011
Algonquin Talks with Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis Star-Tribune Book Review Editor
For our latest installment in the Algonquin Talks series, we hear from Laurie Hertzel, book editor for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and author of News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist. Minneapolis …
June 23, 2011
Summer Reading List
It’s no secret that we Algonkians are voracious readers. This summer, we’re excited to dive into a wide variety of books, from the eclectic (The Decameron, Emily Post’s Etiquette, Yakuza Moon) to …
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 …
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 …
