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This month our booksellers are cooking up a seven course feast to highlight the many new cookbooks hitting our shelves in time for the holidays. Join us as we chronicle our ambitious culinary undertakings here on the BookPeople blog. From cocktails to side dishes to dessert, we’ll share our adventures investigating a wide variety of new cookbooks, all … Continue reading BookPeople Feast: Plantain-Stuffed Peppers
Ticket to Childhood by Nguyen Nhat Anh ~post by Ben How do you remember your childhood? I can remember joyfully imitating Michael Jordan in a humid basement with a Nerf foam basketball and an empty laundry basket. I remember catching fireflies in a jar at dusk. Yet, just as easily, I can remember having to … Continue reading TICKET TO CHILDHOOD: Putting Adults On Trial
Horns by Joe Hill ~post by Robyn and Steven Horns by Joe Hill is a gripping revenge anthem that navigates the wicked corridors of the human spirit while artfully subverting conventional morality to deconstruct the faulty premise of good versus evil. Under the scrutiny of Joe Hill's transcendent storytelling, the straw god that would punish … Continue reading The HORNS Experience
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too! by Robert Ben Garant & Thomas Lennon ~post by Steve(n) Casablanca; Lawrence of Arabia; Annie Hall; The Pacifier with Vin Diesel. One of these movies doesn't belong. That's because one of these movies made oodles … Continue reading WRITING MOVIES FOR FUN AND PROFIT: A Guaranteed Money Factory
HARDCOVER FICTION Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford Signed copies available while supplies last! (Collectors, they are tip-ins) Here, in Let Me Be Frank With You, Ford returns with four deftly linked stories narrated by the iconic Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, and again ensconced in the well-defended New Jersey suburb of Haddam, Bascombe … Continue reading New Releases – 11/4/14
From Austin's very own, A Strange Object, comes a new title this upcoming Tuesday, November 4th. Already well-established as an independent press to watch with the release of its previous two books, Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Austin author Kelly Luce and Misadventure by Nicholas Grider, we've been anxiously awaiting … Continue reading A Look at the Upcoming Release from A Strange Object: OUR SECRET LIFE IN THE MOVIES
We’re happy to announce that the Statesman Selects pick for November is The Peripheral by William Gibson. His first novel since the 2010's bestselling novel, Zero History, we are ecstatic to have one of the most exciting and visionary authors of our time in the store. A Hugo, Nebula, and The Philip K. Dick Award … Continue reading Statesman Selects: THE PERIPHERAL by William Gibson
It's Halloween and, as promised, J.K. Rowling has delivered us the treat of a new story from the wizarding world of our hero, Harry Potter. But before jumping in, let's not forget that this a day of fright. This story fittingly features one of the most sinister, cringe-inducing characters to come across Harry Potter's path, … Continue reading Halloween Treat: NEW STORY FROM J.K. ROWLING
In 2002, Richard Linklater and his cast of four actors (Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, and Lorelei Linklater) began a project that would last twelve years. The result is the film Boyhood, which, if you haven't seen, you should probably take care of as soon as possible. The film is Texas to the core, … Continue reading BOYHOOD: TWELVE YEARS ON FILM now on our shelves!
~post by Julie It's that time of year when we turn to our kitchens with fresh gusto and zeal to cook up celebratory feasts for family and friends. There is no shortage of worthy cookbooks to help us along this year. In fact, there are so many fine new cookbooks on the shelf that we've … Continue reading Top Shelf in November: A Feast of Great New Cookbooks
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