A physical book to me is like someone I’ve just met. I hastily judge it by its cover, sometimes critical of how it looks, deciding that the jacket looks too sad or silly or forbidding or...

Kathy Pories, Executive Editor at Algonquin, has been with Algonquin for over two decades. She has been lucky to work with a slew of writers, including Jill McCorkle, Thrity Umrigar, Lee...