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Bestselling author Kevin Wilson (Nothing to See Here, Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine) joins Scott Semegran of Austin Liti Limits for a riveting interview on writing, parenthood, and spontaneous combustion. You can watch the pair's full interview below: And keep following this page for a virtual reading from Wilson coming soon. About the Author: Kevin Wilson is … Continue reading Austin Liti Limits: Kevin Wilson
Booksellers Erik and Uriel—known colloquially as The Book Boys around BookPeople—want to challenge you to take the dive and get lost in a long book (or two) in 2021. They're joining us on the blog today to discuss some of their favorite 500+ page tomes and a few they're excited to tackle soon. There's no … Continue reading Reading List: Big Books to Tackle in the New Year!
A host of good reads hit our shelves this week! Master storytellers George Saunders and Kevin Barry return in celebration of the short story, while new titles in the history section revisit 1960s-era tensions and look back even further to a 16th-century Arctic exploration. And taking the top spot in our highlights is Alexi Pappas' … Continue reading Turn the Page: New Releases for the Week of 1/12
Austin Liti Limits returns this week for an interview with author and professor Ran Walker. Semegram met with Walker virtually to discuss Walker's prolific quarantine experience, the varieties of microfiction, and the pair's shared love of hip-hop. Watch the full interview below! And catch Part 2 for a reading from The World Is Yours: Microfictions performed … Continue reading Austin Liti Limits: Ran Walker
If you, like us, have seen the entirety of Bridgerton on Netflix all the way through and are asking yourself what's next?, we have just the cure. Bookseller Olivia O. has compiled a delectable list of historical romance series to savor and swoooon over while we eagerly await Season 2 The Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn This is … Continue reading Reading List: For Fans of ‘Bridgerton’
A very Happy New Year to all of our readers! 2021 is here and with it comes a sense of rejuvenation, excitement (2020 is OVER! PHEW! GOOD RIDDANCE!). The holiday madness has now passed, we're all starting to look forward and at BookPeople, that means keeping an eye out on all the best new books … Continue reading New Year, New Books, Same You!
Happy New Year, readers! Our friends at Austin Liti Limits are christening 2021 with a brand video interview with Michelle Cox, the bestselling author of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard novels. Larry Brill is on the scene to discuss Cox's A Child Lost—a book that transports readers through through the tangled halls of Dunning, the infamous … Continue reading Austin Liti Limits: Michelle Cox
That's it, folks! We've (nearly) made it to the end of this horrible year. And what better way to cap it off than with the 52nd volume of New Release Tuesday posts for 2020? This week's new releases has a few murder mysteries to cozy up with, some food guides to get you thinking about … Continue reading Final New Releases of 2020!
The penultimate New Release Tuesday of 2020 has arrived. A scant few days remain in a year we'd all like to forget, and though we're ready to put it all behind us, we've got a duty to spotlight the books that have made this ordeal worth trudging through. Take a peek at some of the … Continue reading New Books, Same Old Year
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. And unless your name is Jeff Bezos, you're probably not a whole lot better off than you were at the beginning of this godforsaken year. 2020 was a time of tremendous sacrifice and loss, TikTok dances and sourdough starters, Tiger Kings and Chess Queens … Continue reading Year in Review: BookPeople’s 31 Favorite Reads of 2020
