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Dear Boss, We keep on hearing the police have congratulated the Nightmare Factory book club on another successful month but they wont fix us just yet. We have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. Reading and rereading Tales of Jack the Ripper, edited by Ross E. Lockhart, … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween, Day 14: TALES OF JACK THE RIPPER
Dog Shaming by Pascal Lemire Reviewed by: Shappy (and Alvy and Max) This past March I left my two dachshunds, Alvy Singer and Max Bialystock, home alone for a few hours in my apartment in what I like to call the "Village Of Screaming Children". You see, the children that live below me LOVE to … Continue reading Man’s Best Friend. Most of the Time.
2013 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature: Alice Munro Thursday, The Swedish Academy announced the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, and they picked the amazing short story writer Alice Munro. The 13th woman and the 1st Canadian, to be named a Nobel Prize-winner for literature, Munro is 82 years old and has 14 … Continue reading Book News Friday
We've fallen in love with, Sophie's Squash, a delightfully weird new picture book written by Pat Zietlow Miller and illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf. Our Kid's Book Buyer Meghan G. is a big fan: "Sophie's Squash is about a girl who adopts a squash as a pet. As the squash slowly rots and rots, she refuses … Continue reading Chris Barton talks to Pat Zietlow Miller
~post by Joe H.P. Lovecraft may well be the most important writer of horror fiction of the 20th century. Taking the strands of American and British weird tales and weaving them together into a braid of his own making, Lovecraft managed to create a genre and a singular vision that is influencing authors to this … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 11 “H.P. Lovecraft”
~post by Joe T. H.P. Lovecraft, in his seminal essay on horror fiction, Supernatural Horror In Literature, devoted space to many of his favorite contemporary or near-contemporary writers. These writers, perhaps due to their now association with Mr. Lovecraft, remain in print to this day. Here is a small sampling of some of the authors represented … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 10 “Pre-Lovecraft”
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you the highlights from BookPeople Teens and our Teen Press Corp Blog this week! Don't hold your breath. It's almost here, I swear! Allegiant is less than 2 weeks away! Colette: I read the first two books and loved them. I really liked the action. … Continue reading Teen Thursday
~ post by Steve B. Yesterday was a very special day in the life of BookPeople gift certificates. After a 25 year rest in a bag at Alison Brause's house in Austin, a gift certificate from 1988 came home to BookPeople. Alison found the certificate a few days ago and decided to see if it … Continue reading A Gift Card, 25 Years in the Waiting
Our fabulous booksellers are embarking on new adventures in the written word every day here at BookPeople. Here are a few of the titles that some of our awesome peeps are exploring! ~ CONSUELO INVISIBLE MAN by RALPH ELLISON "I'm reading this book for the [Required Reading Revisited] book club." Consuelo is not one for … Continue reading What We’re Reading
~post by Joe T. Dan Simmons is a man who has made a strong name for himself in both the worlds of horror and speculative fiction. His Hyperion Cantos series has won numerous Locus awards, a Hugo, and has been nominated multiple times for the Nebula awards. His horror fiction career has spanned from … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 9 “Dan Simmons”
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