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We were so excited to host debut author Casey McQuiston a few weeks ago. McQuiston grew up in the swamps of Southern Louisiana, where she cultivated an abiding love for honey butter biscuits and stories with big, beating hearts. She studied journalism and worked in magazine publishing for years before returning to her first love: … Continue reading New Podcast: Casey McQuiston
The literary community lost one of its great voices early last week with the passing of Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Horwitz. We were fortunate to recently have Horwitz in the store for an event with his newest book, Spying on the South. Set in the 1850s, it tells the story of the young Frederick Law Olmsted, … Continue reading New Podcast: Tony Horwitz
If you weren't able to make it to our latest MysteryPeople sponsored event with David C. Taylor and Joan Moran, check out our new podcast recording of the event! Taylor's Night Watch is the third novel in the Michael Cassidy series of noir thrillers set in New York City in the 1950’s. The first, Night Life, was a … Continue reading New MysteryPeople Podcast
At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest, toughest horse race”—an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a … Continue reading On the Podcast: Lara Prior-Palmer
Austin Bat Cave has been an Austin institution for many years, running its first series of free writing workshops in the summer of 2007 at Austin Community College. They've just released the eleventh volume of their anthology of writings from those workshops. We were so excited to host them in the store earlier this month … Continue reading New Podcast: Austin Bat Cave
Heather B. Armstrong is widely acknowledged to be the most popular “mommy blogger” in the world. Her website, dooce®, has twice been listed as one of the 25 best blogs in the world by Time magazine and Forbes listed it as a top 100 website for women. In the eighteen years that Heather has been shaping the internet writing community, she’s … Continue reading New Podcast: Heather B. Armstrong
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Award, three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and … Continue reading New Podcast: Robert Caro
T.C. Boyle has published fourteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995, as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau award for excellence in nature writing. He was in the store for his newest psychedelic … Continue reading New Podcast: TC Boyle
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than four dozen novels, including Jackrabbit Smile, the Edgar-award winning The Bottoms, Sunset and Sawdust, and Leather Maiden. He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. Lansdale returned to the store earlier this month with his newest novel featuring … Continue reading New Podcast with Joe Lansdale
Bryan Washington's Lot is set in the city of Houston—a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America—following the son of a black mother and a Latino father, coming of age. He’s working at his family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows, resenting his older sister’s absence. And discovering he likes boys. Washington has written for The New Yorker, The New … Continue reading Podcast with Bryan Washington
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