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Author : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616202955
Author essays and excerpts from forthcoming fiction by Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Lauren Grodstein, Drew Perry, and Gina Frangello. A biannual publication for friends of Algonquin Books.
Author : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616205245
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Spring 2015 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a preview of each novel. The Miracle Girl by Andrew Roe On Sale April 21, 2015 “To believe or not to believe--that is the question facing all who are touched by the comatose ‘miracle girl’ at the swirling center of Roe’s dazzling debut. But more than an exploration of the mysteries of faith, it’s also the unforgettable story of one family’s struggle against tragedy. The result is an uplifting miracle of a book.” —Will Allison, author of Long Drive Home The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor On Sale May 5, 2015 “Hypnotically readable--I absolutely couldn’t put it down. The structure is brilliant, and I turned the pages with increasing dread. This book is terrific.” —Stephen King Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian On Sale April 7, 2015 “Aline Ohanesian draws from her family’s own dark history to create a tender, powerful story of love and reclamation. A breathtaking and expansive work of historical fiction and proof that the past can sometimes rewrite the future.” —Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train The Wisdom of Perversity by Rafael Yglesias On Sale March 24, 2015 “The sly courage, the deft intelligence, and the fierceness of vision that we, his fans, have come to expect from a Raphael Yglesias novel all blaze brightly forth—and cast very dark shadows—in The Wisdom of Perversity.” —Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Dinner with Buddha by Roland Merullo On Sale June 2, 2015 Algonquin’s long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling Breakfast with Buddha finds Otto Ringling and Mongolian monk Volya Rinpoche on another unexpected road trip of discovery. Cover art by Melinda Beck
Author : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616207310
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Spring 2017 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a preview of each novel. Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein On Sale March 2017 The Last Days of Café Leila by Donia Bijan On Sale April 2017 When the English Fall by David Williams On Sale July 2017 The Leavers by Lisa Ko On Sale May 2017 The Girl of the Lake by Bill Roorbach On Sale June 2017 The Lost History of Stars by Dave Boling On Sale June 2017 Cover art by Beppe Giacobbe
Author : Evan T. Pritchard
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781571781031
A descendant of a Micmac chief, the author presents a book on Native American spirituality. Outlining the Seven Points of Respect for Native American ceremonies, he goes on to describe their way of life: They don't write in metaphor, they speak it; they don't recite poetry, they live it.
Author : J.J. Murphy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101476796
One morning legendary wit Dorothy Parker discovers someone under Manhattan's famed Algonquin Round Table. A little early for a passed out drunk, isn't it? But he's not dead drunk, just dead. When a charming writer from Mississippi named Billy Faulkner becomes a suspect in the murder, Dorothy decides to dabble in a little detective work, enlisting her literary cohorts. It's up to the Algonquins to outwit the true culprit-preferably before cocktail hour-and before the clever killer turns the tables on them.
Author : Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2015-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1493016733
"That is the thing about New York," wrote Dorothy Parker in 1928. "It is always a little more than you had hoped for. Each day, there, is so definitely a new day." Now you can journey back there, in time, to a grand city teeming with hidden bars, luxurious movie palaces, and dazzling skyscrapers. In these places, Dorothy Parker and her cohorts in the Vicious Circle at the infamous Algonquin Round Table sharpened their wit, polished their writing, and captured the energy and elegance of the time. Robert Benchley, Parker’s best friend, became the first managing editor of Vanity Fair before Irving Berlin spotted him onstage in a Vicious Circle revue and helped launch his acting career. Edna Ferber, an occasional member of the group, wrote the Pulitzer-winning bestseller So Big as well as Show Boat and Cimarron. Jane Grant pressed her first husband, Harold Ross, into starting The New Yorker. Neysa McMein, reputedly “rode elephants in circus parades and dashed from her studio to follow passing fire engines.” Dorothy Parker wrote for Vanity Fair and Vogue before ascending the throne as queen of the Round Table, earning everlasting fame (but rather less fortune) for her award-winning short stories and unforgettable poems. Alexander Woollcott, the centerpiece of the group, worked as drama critic for the Times and the World, wrote profiles of his friends for The New Yorker, and lives on today as Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner. Explore their favorite salons and saloons, their homes and offices (most still standing), while learning about their colorful careers and private lives. Packed with archival photos, drawings, and other images--including never-before-published material--this illustrated historical guide includes current information on all locations. Use it to retrace the footsteps of the Algonquin Round Table, and you’ll discover that the golden age of Gotham still surrounds us.
Author : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616207965
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Fall 2017 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a preview of each novel. The books featured in this issue are: Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin On Sale August 2017 The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst On Sale October 2017 Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason On Sale January 2018 An American Marriage by Tayari Jones On Sale February 2018 Shadow of the Lions by Christopher Swann On Sale August 2017 Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener On Sale November 2017 Savage Country by Robert Olmstead On Sale September 2017 Cover illustration by Nate Williams.
Author : Margaret Case Harriman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1789122465
In June 1919, the Algonquin Hotel became the site of the daily meetings of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of journalists, authors, publicists and actors who gathered to exchange bon mots over lunch in the main dining room. The group met almost daily for the better part of ten years. Some of the core members of the “Vicious Circle” included Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Jane Grant, Ruth Hale, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Neysa McMein, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert E. Sherwood and Alexander Woollcott. George S. Kaufman, Heywood Broun, and Edna Ferber, who influenced writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, were also a part of the August assembly, and as founders of The New Yorker magazine, all hotel guests receive free copies to this day. Frank Case, owner of the Algonquin Hotel from 1907 until his death in 1946, ensured a daily luncheon for the talented group of young writers by treating them to free celery and popovers, and they were provided with their own table and waiter. All members were affiliated with the Algonquin Round Table, although they referred to themselves as the Vicious Circle. In this memoir, first published in 1951, Frank Case’s daughter Margaret Case Harriman recounts the diverting history of what was an innocent lunch group at her father’s hotel and illustrates how it grew to become an important factor in literature, the theatre, and American wit and humor... “A lively, chatty, entertaining work, touched with nostalgia.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune “Mrs. Harriman brings vividly to mind and to memory some of the most vivid people who ever sat around a table...She writes with enthusiasm and charm.”—New York Herald Tribune Book Review “Phenomenal...Congrats, as Connolly says, from the Bunch.”—Franklin P. Adams “A lovingly observed and brilliantly written chronicle of an era that didn’t know it was one.”—Deems Taylo
Author : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616206322
Algonquin Books presents author essays and excerpts from forthcoming fiction, featuring This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison; The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro; The Last September by Nina de Gramont; And West Is West by Ron Childress; Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington; and The Fall of Princes by Robert Goolrick.
Author : Robert E. Drennan
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2000-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780806509471
The wit at the poker table tended to be less sophisticated than the luncheon banter - one can't consider the possibilities of a three card flush and simultaneously create nifties - but it was at the poker table that the Round Tablers revealed, in their firehouse funnies, their substantially small town origins. Every one of them came from the hinterlands exept my father.