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Austin Bat Cave has been an Austin institution for many years, running its first series of free writing workshops in the summer of 2007 at Austin Community College. They've just released the eleventh volume of their anthology of writings from those workshops. We were so excited to host them in the store earlier this month … Continue reading New Podcast: Austin Bat Cave
Orange World By Karen Russell: From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, comes a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a … Continue reading New Releases 5/14
Casey McQuiston, author of Red, White & Royal Blue, is coming to BookPeople! Every now and then, a book sweeps through the store that gets our staff positively buzzing with excitement. Proclamations of love and adoration fill the air, followed by the insistence that x coworker must be the next to enjoy this incredible story. … Continue reading Countdown for Casey
Heather B. Armstrong is widely acknowledged to be the most popular “mommy blogger” in the world. Her website, dooce®, has twice been listed as one of the 25 best blogs in the world by Time magazine and Forbes listed it as a top 100 website for women. In the eighteen years that Heather has been shaping the internet writing community, she’s … Continue reading New Podcast: Heather B. Armstrong
The Peached Tortilla By Eric Silverstein: Chef Eric Silverstein was born in Tokyo, but when his family moved to the US, he became immersed in Southern and Southwestern cooking--his original food truck and now his restaurant, The Peached Tortilla is a fusion of all the foods he loves. Dishes like the Banh Mi Taco, or … Continue reading New Releases 5/7
Like Lions By Brian Panowich: Sequel to Panowich's award-winning debut, we've been waiting for LIKE LIONS for four years! Picking up a few months after BULL MOUNTAIN left off, LIKE LIONS takes us in for another thrilling ride with the Sheriff toeing the line between his loyalties to his line of work and to his … Continue reading New Releases 4/30
T.C. Boyle has published fourteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995, as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau award for excellence in nature writing. He was in the store for his newest psychedelic … Continue reading New Podcast: TC Boyle
The Valedictorian of Being Dead By Heather Armstrong: An honest and irreverant memoir from one of the world's premier mommy bloggers, The Valedictorian of Being Dead dives into a disease that plagues many, and the experimental lengths which Heather Armstrong went through to combat depression. But when a depressive episode more severe than she'd ever … Continue reading New Releases 4/23
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than four dozen novels, including Jackrabbit Smile, the Edgar-award winning The Bottoms, Sunset and Sawdust, and Leather Maiden. He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. Lansdale returned to the store earlier this month with his newest novel featuring … Continue reading New Podcast with Joe Lansdale
White By Bret Easton Ellis: Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years. Now, in White, with the same originality displayed in his fiction, Ellis pours himself out onto the page and, in doing so, eviscerates the perceived good that the social-media age has wrought, … Continue reading New Releases 4/16
