Posts Tagged: Jennifer Egan

December 7, 2011

Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books They’ve Read in 2011, Part 2

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, <i>Minneapolis Star-Tribune</i> Book Review Editor

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

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 …