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Each month I'll be investigating events around town that might pique the interest of the book nerds, the literature obsessed, and those who enjoy stimulating entertainment and/or socializing. Not surprisingly, Austin has a number of things going on every month the Book People community would enjoy. One Page Salon @ The Whip In Tuesday Oct 6th at … Continue reading Austin Events for the Literati – October
We are thrilled to announce the fifth pick for our Trust Fall subscription club is Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson. Our booksellers have been mesmerized by this new novel, likening it to last year's form-defying novel, S., and the work of Mark Danielewski and David Mitchell. We've made it our Top Shelf pick for October, … Continue reading Announcing Trust Fall Pick #5!
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for our monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, BookPeople will highlight the Statesman’s top recommended read for Austin. We're excited to announce October's pick is Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh. Come down to the store Thursday, October 15th at 7pm when … Continue reading Statesman Select for October 2015: DON’T SUCK, DON’T DIE
We're very excited to announce that we've just added a terrific event for kids to our October calendar! Actor and author Jason Segel will be here at BookPeople on Saturday, October 31 at 3pm - that's right, on Halloween! - to speak about and sign his latest middle grade novel, Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic! Of course, … Continue reading JUST BOOKED: Halloween Costume Party with Jason Segel!
After more than one thousand nominations, judges for the Kirkus Prize, now in its second year, have narrowed it down to six finalists for three different categories: fiction, nonfiction and young readers' literature. Here they are: Young Readers Literature: The New Small Person by Lauren Child Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting … Continue reading Kirkus Prize Short List Announced – Bookseller Picks!
Inspired by Crenshaw, the new book by Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, BookPeople is partnering with Macmillan Children's Group and bookstores around the country to raise awareness of childhood hunger. Throughout the month of October, we will be partnering with The Capitol Area Food Bank to collect items for families in need. Bring non-perishable food items into BookPeople all … Continue reading Crenshaw Food Drive Begins Today!
In The Required Reading Revisited Book Club we focus on books considered “Required Reading” by most educational institutions, i.e. books you read (or were supposed to read) in school – either high school or university. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Our September required reading book was Betty Smith's 1943 debut novel about an aspirational … Continue reading Required Reading Revisited Book Club – October
New in Hardcover Gold Fame Citrus: A Novel by Claire Vaye Watkins We’ve been eagerly anticipating this novel since we first sped through Watkins’s multi-award winning, highly acclaimed first collection of stories, Battleborn. In a surreal, phantasmagoric version of southern California – ravaged by drought, its aquifers drained, facing the spread of an unrelenting desert … Continue reading New Books! 9/29/15
Adam Resnick's extemporaneous bile and deep, existential paranoia throttle any hint of superficial, saccharine wonder out of the childhood stories that constitute the seething, autobiographical essays of Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation. Hilarious despite itself, this comic memoir betrays the mania that boils just beneath the surface of Resnick's furrowed brow. … Continue reading The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Confirms Attendance After Reading WILL NOT ATTEND!
My Bliss, by Bonnie Jo Campbell, explores marriage. Or, marrying things and not marrying things. It is a short short story, and very strange. Here's a line: "How foolish, my marrying the truck, the shovel, the hair, the hope, the broom, the mail—oh, waiting and waiting for the mail to come!" From Pank. From LitHub, Eileen Myles in … Continue reading weekend reading
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