Posts Tagged: Wicked Plants
December 14, 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 …
July 20, 2011
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
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 5, 2011
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 …
December 15, 2010
Win This: Wicked Plants Seed Collection
As some of you know, I planted a poison garden while I was working on Wicked Plants. I’d never grown, much less seen, some of the plants in the book, and it’s …
November 15, 2010
Wicked Trailer Amy Stewart, Wicked Bugs
We bring you this important news bulletin about Amy Stewart’s Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army & other Diabolical Insects (May 2011). Amy Stewart is also the author of the …
August 6, 2010
Ask Dr. Bleedingheart
Dear Dr. Bleedingheart, Help! There’s this really cute guy working at a local bookstore near my office and I’d love to ask him out. But every time I go into the store …
July 20, 2010
Ask Dr. Bleedingheart
Dear Dr. Bleedingheart, I’ve leaving in a few weeks for a vacation with extended family at a beach house that we’ve rented for a week. Do you have any tips for surviving …
