MB chats with Kathy Pories, Senior Editor at Algonquin Books, a "small Southern press" with "national appeal."

Mediabistro: What kinds of books to do you work on/are you looking for? Conversely, what kinds of books don't you want to see at all?

Pories: I look for great creative nonfiction (the kind that is not just a flat-out memoir, but one with an interesting angle, such as Enslaved by Ducks or Candyfreak) and literary fiction, both of which seem to be what I do best, and what I have the best eye for. I don't think I have a good eye for commercial fiction—so even though Algonquin has somewhat broadened the types of fiction we publish, ranging now from literary to commercial, I stay on the literary side.

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