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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson “Despite knowing how the doomed Lusitania's story ultimately ends, the tense build up to the big event is fantastic. The alternating story lines and points of view - the passengers & crew, the German U-boat captain, President Woodrow Wilson, British code breakers & Admiralty, and major … Continue reading New Books! 3/22/16
Karan Mahajan will speak & sign his new and highly-acclaimed novel, The Association of Small Bombs, in our store Tuesday, March 22 at 7PM. He was kind enough to answer some questions for us in the mean time. I advise you to also check out the book's excellent review in the New York Times. When … Continue reading BookPeople talks to Karan Mahajan
This post comes from Meike, a member of our event team. BookPeople kicked off SXSW with two author events with outstanding material on leveraging social media engagement and other management information for the small business owner. If you weren’t able to make it to the events, here’s a quick rundown. Rusty Shelton and Barbara Cave Henricks … Continue reading BookPeople Explores the Digital Media Landscape During SXSW
Poetry Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitudes by Ross Gay Criticism The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Autobiography Negroland by Margo Jefferson Biography Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon Nonfiction Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones Fiction The Sellout by Paul Beatty The John Leonard Prize … Continue reading National Book Critic Circle Awards for 2015 Announced
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar "When a coworker passed along an advanced review copy of Lavie Tidhar’s latest genre bending novel, A Man Lies Dreaming, a few months ago, I immediately took it home and devoured it. I then ordered in his previous mixture of scifi and noir, Osama, set in an alternative … Continue reading New Books! 3/15/16
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography by Elaine Showalter Julia Ward (1819-1910) was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally-acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens to John Brown. … Continue reading New Books! 3/8/16
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for their monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, BookPeople will highlight the Statesman’s top recommended read for Austin. March's pick is Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves. Reeves will join us here at BookPeople Thursday, March 10 at 7PM to speak and sign her book. … Continue reading March 2016 Statesman Selects: WORK LIKE ANY OTHER by Virginia Reeves
This post comes from Gregory, cinephile and BookPeople manager. “A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make … Continue reading Hollywood’s Turbulent First Century: A Glimpse at the Beginning Decades of Our Silver Industry
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary. From Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond comes a ground-level view … Continue reading New Books! 3/1/16
This post comes from our former bookseller Steven. Back in the lawless wasteland of the early 2000s, while Outkast CDs were playing on America's boomboxes, and Arrested Development was lighting up television sets every week, I was an unjustifiably ambitious college student enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin with the declared intention of earning … Continue reading Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
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