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BookPeople is excited to announce we're hosting a special in-store event with bestselling author & Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington on Friday, April 11 at 3pm. Huffington will speak about and sign her new book, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. EVENT INFORMATION This event will take place at … Continue reading Arianna Huffington Comes to BookPeople!
Welcome to our Book Club Corner, where each month we highlight books new to paperback we think would make perfect picks for your next book club discussion. If you’re looking to join a book club, we host a wide variety of free, bookseller-run book clubs right here at BookPeople. Join us! We love to talk books. _______________________________________________________ … Continue reading Book Club Corner: March Recommendations
~post by Sutterfield I love food, I love books. I love books about food (and food in the shape of books?). My kitchen has become a small temple, where I light little fires and watch the raw earth become food for those I love. Bread and soup and beets. I love to cook. 'Course, it … Continue reading Sutter’s Kitchen: AN EVERLASTING MEAL
Last year, I read a book that has continued to haunt me. I find myself thinking about it, puzzling over its structure, its twists and turns and endless fascinating layers. It was an unsuspecting novel by Kristopher Jansma, his first, that I picked up one day on a whim and couldn’t put down: The Unchangeable … Continue reading The Writer’s Life & The Intricacies of the Creative Process
We're happy to announce the Statesman Selects pick for March is the beautiful new novel by author Michael Parker, All I Have in This World, a story that sets two strangers up over the hood of a used car in Texas and sets them on the course of a different kind of love story. Pick up the Statesman this … Continue reading Statesman Selects: ALL I HAVE IN THIS WORLD
How Best To Avoid Dying by Owen Egerton Reviewed by Andrew Hilbert Owen Egerton is one of the best writers operating today and, holy cow, he's an Austinite. One of the creators of the Sinus Show and Master Pancake Theater, Owen is known to be a funnyman to most locals. He's also a fine writer. … Continue reading Review: HOW BEST TO AVOID DYING
George Saunders, veritable King of the Short Story at this point, has gone ahead and won yet another thing, this time in England. Moments ago, Saunders was announced the winner of the inaugural Folio Prize for his can't-beat-it-don't-even-try collection, Tenth of December (published by Bloomsbury Books over in the UK; Random House here in the US). From … Continue reading George Saunders Wins The Folio Prize
(photo via ASF's blog, credit Vicky Topaz) Y'all, AMY HEMPEL is judging this year's American Short Fiction Short Story Contest! That is a Big Deal. If you haven't read Hempel's short fiction before, get ye a copy of her Collected Stories. Seriously, right now, get this book. And then after you've read everything she's published, if you're … Continue reading Amy Hempel to Judge American Short Fiction Contest
One More Thing: Stories And Other Stories by B. J. Novak Reviewed by Steve(n) Tightrope-walking between the heartfelt and the absurd, the short fiction of BJ Novak balances high above saccharine whimsy, but, when it does take a deliberate tumble into irreverrent silliness, it climbs back into its native, rarefied air with a guilty, knowing grin … Continue reading Review: ONE MORE THING by B. J. Novak
SXSW Books! No, it's not a real thing, and no, we're not an official SXSW venue or anything like that. But we do happen to have a few awesome events happening during the madness and we'd love to see you here. All authors will speak about and sign their books at these events. The speaking … Continue reading SXSW at BookPeople
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