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They’ve Come for Your Guts I named my in-store display ‘They’ve Come for Your Guts’ because each of these writers took my guts in loving, weathered hands and twisted, tweaked, polished, pinched, and molded them into something a little different than what they were before. On one level, I’m saying that the experience of reading … Continue reading They’ve Come for Your Guts
By Cathy Maxwell Several years ago, Sarah MacLean (yes, that Sarah MacLean, the one whose new book The Day of the Duchess will hit the shelves June 27th (you can find an excerpt here), wanted to start an online book club that celebrated all she loved about Romance. She called it the Old-School Romance Book … Continue reading The Romance Bookshelves—A Get Together and Look Who is on the A List
We're hiring! BookPeople is looking for booksellers, baristas, and a gifts Inventory Manager! Love BookPeople? Love books? Come work with us! BookPeople is the largest independent bookstore in Texas. During our more than forty-year history, we have gained national recognition and become an iconic Austin destination. From our beginnings in 1970 as a small new … Continue reading BookPeople is Hiring!
Sarah Tolscer - Song of the Current Caroline is destined for the river, following in the footsteps of her father and grandmother before her...all she needs is for the river god to whisper her name and she'll be the pilot of her own river wherry. But when her father is kidnapped Caro's world falls apart as … Continue reading New Books 6/6!
It's impossible to speak about Arundhati Roy without also speaking about The God of Small Things. Published in 1997, it won the Booker prize and has been translated into over forty languages, garnering worldwide acclaim. I first encountered it about a decade following that and immediately fell in love. The God of Small Things is … Continue reading Top Shelf: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
A hard land with a difficult history, Texas has always lent itself well to crime fiction. From the crime fiction greats who helped define the genre to those writers shaping the landscape of crime fiction today, Texas has a long tradition of social critiques and sendoffs of hypocrisy (the hallmarks of Texas crime fiction, in my opinion) delivered via murder mystery. Tales of Texas history may gaslight their audiences into believing in the state as a land of triumph, but we crime fiction readers know the dark, murderous truth about the land we call home….
Below, you’ll find an incomplete (of necessity) guide to Texas crime fiction, brought to y’all in honor of Texas Mystery Writers Month (that is, May). Emphasis is placed on well-known classic writers and the wide array of new crime fiction released in the past few years. We know we’re leaving out…
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Ryan Higa - Ryan Higa's How To Write Good The star and creator of one of Youtube's Top 15 channels, Ryan Higa has written a book! Inspired by his hugely popular "Draw My Life" video, Higa's memoir goes into his early life as it transformed from happy to depressed and angry, and the way he found … Continue reading New Books 5/30!
After over a decade of selling books, I finally get my own endcap to feature books to champion. I didn’t intend to pick all women writers when I started choosing, but after I realized that’s what I was doing, I kept going. At a glance, they seem pretty varied, but upon closer inspection, they all … Continue reading Consuelo’s favorite books
Amelia Gray - Isadora Event Coordinator Matt is currently reading Amelia Gray's new novel and can't stop recommending it! Set in prewar Europe, ISADORA builds upon the real life story of Isadora Duncan, widely considered to be the mother of modern dance, and explores the artist’s tumultuous life following the tragic death of her two children. … Continue reading New Books 5/23!
Our booksellers simply love Samantha Irby, creator of the blog Bitches Gotta Eat and author of the equally amazing essay collection We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. We want to be her best friends on the Internet or, at the very least, hang out with her. And now we get to! We're thrilled to welcome her to … Continue reading We ❤ Samantha Irby!
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