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This year, four science fiction-loving booksellers will delve into Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents: The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films, the new book by film historian Douglas Brode. They’ll watch the movies, read Brode’s take, and tell you – point blank – how they feel about all of it. The following review has been written … Continue reading Fantastic Planets #52: Man of Steel
Shylock Is My Name by Howard Jacobson (Top Shelf in February!) “Shylock Is My Name, Howard Jacobson’s reimagining of The Merchant of Venice for the 21st century, is the second installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which many of today’s greatest writers will put their own spin on Shakespeare’s plays. The series launched last fall, with … Continue reading New Books! 2/9/16
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. February's pick is Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century by Daniel Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer will join us here at BookPeople Friday, February … Continue reading Statesman Selects in February: EXIT RIGHT by Daniel Oppenheimer
Mo Daviau will speak & sign Every Anxious Wave here at BookPeople next Wednesday, February 10 at 7! 1. What came first in the inception of this book - time travel or music? Time travel. The majority of my daydreams involve time travel. For most of my life, I've been impatient about getting to something … Continue reading Wormholes & Indie Bands: An Interview with Mo Daviau
JUST BOOKED! We're thrilled to announce bestselling author BRANDON SANDERSON will speak & sign CALAMITY (The Reckoners Book Three) here at BookPeople Thursday, February 25th at 7pm! Books and tickets are now available for pre-order! The speaking portion of this event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required for this signing and … Continue reading JUST ANNOUNCED! Brandon Sanderson comes to BookPeople!
The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's Swans of the 1950s and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. Truman Capote and the socialites of 1950s New York … Continue reading Swans of 5th Ave
New in Hardcover The Vegetarian by Han Kang “The Vegetarian is about transformation: birthmarks bloom into flowers, trees alight with flames, arms stretch out into roots, a bird speaks with a mother’s voice, a piece of art transcends the piece itself to shatter several lives. Yeong-hye’s violent dreams are a product of a lifetime of … Continue reading New Books! 2/2/16
This post comes from our inventory manager Jan. It all started with the nightmare. In the midst of Kim Yeong-hye and her husband’s mediocre, middle-class marriage, the dream about blood and meat and carnage. To make the dream stop, Yeong-hye stops eating meat. Then all food. Eventually, she becomes more plant-like than animal to … Continue reading Spotlight on International Fiction: THE VEGETARIAN by Han Kang
BIG NEWS! We're thrilled to announce former guitarist for The Runaways LITA FORD will speak & sign her new memoir, Living Like a Runaway, right here at BookPeople Saturday, February 27 at 6PM! Tickets for the signing are now available and include a copy of the book. If you can’t make the event, we are taking … Continue reading LITA FORD Comes to BookPeople!
This post comes from Jan, our second floor inventory manager and professional cynic. So you made it through another holiday season. You endured seemingly immeasurable hours under the same roof as people of questionable shared genetics (during a campaign season, no less). You fulfilled your obligatory expressions of love and gratitude--in varying degrees of sincerity … Continue reading This Again? How To Survive Valentine’s Day
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