Two Pulitzer Prize winners, a literary legend, a Supreme Court Justice – if our events calendar is any indication, 2013 is going to be an awesome year. Here’s a smattering of what we’re looking forward to. For a full list of our upcoming events, visit our website.
JOHN & SHERRY PETERSIK
Young House Love
Tuesday, January 8 at 7pm
When the Petersiks first announced their tour, our phones rang off the hook! This is going to be a big kick off to the new year. For those of you who haven’t been introduced to John and Sherry, they’re the powerhouse couple behind the DIY home design blog Young House Love. The speaking portion of this event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required for the signing and available only with the purchase of a copy of Young House Love from BookPeople.
MANUEL GONZALES
The Miniature Wife: And Other Stories
Friday, January 11 at 7pm
The Miniature Wife has been a highly anticipated collection around here. We’ve been passing a couple of advance editions around for a few months. Manuel Gonzales has been published in One Story, McSweeney’s, The Believer. He’s a home town boy, and in fact is the Executive Director of Austin Bat Cave. If you like unusual, unexpected fiction, definitely pick this one up. The first story will hook you right away; it’s narrated by a passenger on a plane that has been circling Dallas for twenty years. We’ll celebrate this debut with beverages courtesy of Saint Arnold Brewing Company.
GEORGE SAUNDERS
Tenth of December
Tuesday, January 22 at 7pm
George Saunders is a master of the short story. He’s a veritable living literary legend! To say that we are, in the parlance of our times, stoked to have him read from our podium is indeed an understatement. Funny, weird and wholly enjoyable, this new collection does not disappoint. We’re excited to bring it to our shelves, and so is the Austin American-Statesman, which has made this the paper’s Statesman Selects pick for the month of January.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR
My Beloved World
Wednesday, January 23 at 6:30pm
So one night we welcome a literary legend, and the next evening, we welcome a Supreme Court Justice. Yes, independent bookselling is the single best job in the world. Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir, My Beloved World, follows her life from a Bronx housing project to becoming the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Justice Sotomayor will speak about her book and sign copies at this event. The speaking portion is free and open to the public. Tickets are required for the signing and are only available with the purchase of a copy of My Beloved World from BookPeople. Books are now available for pre-order via our website. Pre-ordering a book automatically assigns you a ticket.
LAWRENCE WRIGHT
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood
and the Prison of BeliefMonday, January 28 at 7pm
Lawrence Wright received the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Now, he turns his keen journalistic insight towards Scientology, digging into the details of its creation, its goals, and more. This book is prepared to hit bestseller lists worldwide. We’re very excited to hear what Wright (a longtime Austin resident, FYI,)has to say about his book and research. The speaking portion of this event is free and open to the public, tickets are required for the signing. The book is now available for pre-order via our website. Ordering the book automatically assigns you a ticket.
DAVE BARRY
Insane City
Tuesday, February 5 at 7pm
The one and only Dave Barry has written his first solo novel in nearly a decade! What’s he been doing all this time? Oh, you know, not much. Writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning humor column. Teaming up with guys like Ridley Pearson to write the awesome Peter and the Starcatchers series. Insane City sounds, you know, appropriately insane. It’s set in Florida, and there are gangsters, angry strippers, and an eleven-foot Burmese python. Exactly what you’d expect from Dave Barry.
Looking even further into the future (ahem, mark your calendars now):
Fri, 2/22 – CORY DOCTOROW
Tues 2/26 – Pearls Before Swine creator STEPHAN PASTIS
Mon 3/11 – HUGH HOWEY, author of the self-published success Wool
Tues 4/16 – AMY STEWART, with Drunken Botanist
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