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Cocktails and conversations with your favorite authors

  • Cocktail

    The Distant Dead

    April 1, 2021 /

    Mezcal • Cocchi • Cointreau • Lime • Absinthe Download recipe (pdf)

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    Sarah Sullivan
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    A Thoreau Examination

    April 1, 2021 /

    Armagnac • Amaro Nonino • Carpano Antica Download recipe (pdf)

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    Sarah Sullivan
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    Plagiarism

    February 25, 2021 /

    Rum • Coffee • Chocolate Bitters Download printable recipe card

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    Sarah Sullivan
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    Paper Plane

    February 25, 2021 /

    Bourbon • Aperol • Amaro Nonino • Lemon Download printable recipe card

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    Sarah Sullivan
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    Days Gone By

    January 12, 2021 /

    Nikka Days • Chartreuse • Club Soda Download printable recipe card

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    Sarah Sullivan
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    New York Sour

    January 12, 2021 /

    Bourbon • Lemon • Red Wine Download printable recipe card

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    Sarah Sullivan
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    Sweater Weather

    December 22, 2020 /

    Whiskey • Maple Syrup • Autumn Bitters Download printable recipe card

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    Sarah Sullivan
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    London Sour

    November 25, 2020 /

    Gin • Lemon • Earl Grey Simple Syrup Download printable drink card.

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    Tommy Sullivan
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    Earl Grey Old Fashioned

    November 25, 2020 /

    Earl Grey simple syrup • Whiskey • Orange Download printable recipe

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    Tommy Sullivan
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    The Wicked Sister

    October 25, 2020 /

    Absinthe • Lemon • Champagne Download printable recipe card.

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    Tommy Sullivan
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2021 Spring Season

March 7, 7 PM ET – Emily Carpenter, Steph Cha, Joshilyn Jackson, Jessica Strawser

March 21, 7 PM ET – Tasha Alexander, Renee Rosen, Heather Webb, Lauren Willig

April 11, 7 PM ET – Damyanti Biswas, Julie Carrick Dalton, JT Ellison, Riley Sager

April 25, 7 PM ET – Ann Garvin, Kelly Mustian, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and Cynthia Swanson

May 16, 7 PM ET – C.J. Box, Mary Kubica, Mia Manansala, and Peter Swanson

May 23, 7 PM ET – Taylor Adams, Andrew Grant, Hannah Mary McKinnon, and Megan Miranda

how it started

Curious about how The Back Room came to be? Click the pic to find out!
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Support Independent Bookstores!

Now more than ever, it’s vitally important to support the independent bookstores that have had to shift the way they do business during the Covid-19 pandemic.

We encourage readers to visit indiebound.org to locate an independent bookstore near you. If you can’t visit the bookstore in person, you can order by phone or online, either through their own website (preferred), or at bookshop.org. We want them to be there when it’s time to reopen!

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Code of Conduct

The Back Room has a zero tolerance policy for harassment of any kind. If a person engages in harassing behavior, The Back Room staff will take prompt action in any form they deem appropriate, including expulsion from The Back Room sponsored event. If someone’s behavior has made you uncomfortable, or if you witness the same happening to someone else, you should immediately contact The Back Room staff. In this virtual landscape, we ask that you remain respectful as you would for an in person event.

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• Tonight! •⁠ ⁠ Join thriller authors Damy • Tonight! •⁠ ⁠ Join thriller authors Damyanti Biswas, Julie Carrick Dalton, JT Ellison, and Riley Sager or an evening of great conversation! ⁠ ⁠ Your hosts are authors Hank Phillipi Ryan and Karen Dionne.
The Bouquinistes of Paris have sold used and antiq The Bouquinistes of Paris have sold used and antiquarian books along large sections of the banks of the Seine since around the 16th century,⁠ ⁠ Where are your favorite outdoor bookstores and markets?⁠ ⁠ 📸 @hifromalix
Join thriller authors Damyanti Biswas, Julie Carri Join thriller authors Damyanti Biswas, Julie Carrick Dalton, JT Ellison, and Riley Sager for an evening of great conversation!⁠ ⁠ After a brief intro and a fun 20-minute lightning round of questions, we break out into small groups so that you can speak one-on-one with each author. It's a new format which allows you to get up close and personal like never before!⁠ ⁠ Visit the-back-room.org to register for this free event! | Link in bio.
Happy anniversary to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald!⁠ ⁠ Exactly a week after Fitzgerald’s debut novel, This Side of Paradise, was published, the two exchanged wedding vows at New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral on April 3, 1920.
We admit it... we love a pun! That was the inspira We admit it... we love a pun! That was the inspiration of the Thoreau Examination, a classic Prohibition Era cocktail with made with a brandy and amaros. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Simple to make and delicious to sip! Swipe for the recipe or download it from our Cocktail Collection on the-back-room.org ⁠⁠ ⁠
Is there anything better than book shopping in Lon Is there anything better than book shopping in London?⁠ ⁠ 📸 @polly.florence
Another beautiful vintage #bookmobile photo from t Another beautiful vintage #bookmobile photo from the archives! This one is from Accra, Ghana.
#booksandcocktails 📚🥃🍸 #booksandcocktails 📚🥃🍸
It's official: spring is here! 🌿⁠ ⁠ Has the It's official: spring is here! 🌿⁠ ⁠ Has the weather caught up with the calendar where you live? Do you like reading outside when the weather is nice?

Our Authors

Taylor Adams · Tasha Alexander · Brian Andrews · Finola Austin · Melanie Benjamin · James Benn · Damyanti Biswas · C.J. Box · Lucy Burdette · V.M. Burns · Ellen Byron · Michele Campbell · Emily Carpenter · Steph Cha · Jennifer J. Chow · Abby Collette · Megan Collins · Liv Constantine · Julie Carrick Dalton · Fiona Davis · Karen Dionne · Samantha Downing · Tori Eldridge · J.T. Ellison · Hallie Ephron · Joseph Finder · Lisa Gardner · Ann Garvin · Daryl Wood Gerber · Alexia Gordon · Andrew Grant · Heather Gudenkauf · Rachel Howzell Hall · Julia Heaberlin · Patti Callahan Henry · Edwin Hill · Joe Ide · Joshilyn Jackson ·  Stephen Mack Jones · Marjan Kamali · Ausma Zehanat Khan · Angie Kim · William Kent Kruger · Mary Kubica · Jon Land · Caroline Leavitt · Greer Macallister · Christina McDonald · Jenn McKinlay · Hannah Mary McKinnon · John McMahon · Kristina McMorris · Mia P. Manansala · Megan Miranda · Jacquelyn Mitchard · Paula Munier · Kelly Mustian · Amy Sue Nathan · Gary Phillips · Lori Rader-Day · Deanna Raybourn · Renee Rosen · Wade Rouse · Hank Phillippi Ryan · Kelly Simmons  · Julia Spencer-Fleming · Lori Nelson Spielman · Riley Sager · Jessica Strawser · Cynthia Swanson · Peter Swanson · Sarah Stewart Taylor · Lisa Unger · David Heska Wanbli Weiden · Wendy Walker · Lauren Willig

Did you know?

Back Room events begin with a quick round-robin game of 20 questions with our featured authors. Wonder what their answers are going to be?




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