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Amazon announced it will drop its Arkansas affiliates for requiring the online retailers to pay sales tax. J. K. Rowling has set up a mysterious website which currently links to a Youtube video (with some seriously cool owl graphics) that announces that she will make an announcement on June 23rd. (It's not a new book, … Continue reading As the Book World Turns
~By Masterbookseller Brian Contine HTMLGIANT has been running a series of interviews about experimental literature. Jenn Shapland and myself have been talking about and enjoying the posts, so we decided to do what all good bloggers do; we’re stealing the idea. Only not really. We’re going to spend our summer reading and reviewing some works … Continue reading A Summer of Experimental Reading
In honor of the 127th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day Leopold Bloom spent stumbling down the streets of Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses, BookPersons Stephanya and Clint have made a solemn vow to one another: they will read a chapter of Ulysses every week and discuss it. No excuses. No complaining, "Oh, my eyes are … Continue reading Happy Bloomsday!
7pm tonight. Simon Pegg. In this store. And you? Will you be here? We still have plenty of books and wristbands to go around. Come on down to the store or give us a call: (512) 472-5050 The rules one more time: In order to join the signing line and meet Simon Pegg you must … Continue reading Simon Pegg is Here TODAY!
Master Bookseller Brian reviews Slavenka Drakulic's book, S.: A Novel About the Balkans. ~ We’ve all seen the Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic in the news lately. Some, or most of us, have silently cheered as one of the monsters of our time is brought to justice. While we know that even if Mladic … Continue reading Some Stories Just Need to Be Told: A Review of ‘S.’
Each month, our friends over at Austin's Pizza select a book to read and review. This month, the book is The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka. Here's J. D. Torian's review: The One-Straw Revolution is a simple book written by a simple man who lives plainly in an overcomplicated and … Continue reading Austin’s Pizza Book of the Month: ‘The One-Straw Revolution’
Here's what's brand new on the shelves this week, available in-store and via our website, http://www.bookpeople.com (Blurbs provided by the books' publishers.) HARDCOVER FICTION Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch - Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for … Continue reading New Releases
It seemed like only yesterday when we heard the news: Simon Pegg was going on book tour for his new memoir, Nerd Do Well, and he was coming here to BookPeople! Ah, yes, the days of waiting have been long, but now here we are, a mere 31 hours (perhaps only 30 1/2 by the … Continue reading Simon Pegg is Here Tomorrow!
Barring any tornadoes (which is what pre-empted his visit to us back in April) Bobby Deen, son of Paula Deen and at one time one of People Magazine's hottest bachelors (no idea if he's still up for grabs, ladies, we just do the bookselling, not the matchmaking) will be here this Saturday, June 18th, 7p … Continue reading Bobby Deen’s Getting Us All Fired Up…for Beer Brats
Joe Reamde by Neal Stephenson "I woke up the other day not even realizing there was a new Neal Stephenson book coming out. Two days later, I'm only just about half way through the new book and I'm caught up in conversations about the structure of the post-Forsythe thriller and the Tolkien concept of eucatastrophe. I'm … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
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