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Things Wither When The Nightmare Factory Book Club Confronts Domestic Horror….

As dusk settles in, the streetlights blink on one by one, and the neighborhood children are sent scattering to illusions of wholesome meals, sweet tea, and the Late Show before bed. Little do they know that as their block buzzed in the suburban afternoon and they explored the culverts and no-man's-lands that stitched their block … Continue reading Things Wither When The Nightmare Factory Book Club Confronts Domestic Horror…. →

The Authors & Auteurs Book Club Survived Cosmopolis and Looks Forward To Paprika

Cosmopolis was widely dismissed upon publication in April of 2003. It was an "intellectual turkey shoot," (The New York Times) a lesser DeLillo, an ornate, remote curiosity... Oh, what a difference five years and a financial collapse wrought. Eric Packer's farfetched machinations in the world of cyber capital now had some visible real world counterparts … Continue reading The Authors & Auteurs Book Club Survived Cosmopolis and Looks Forward To Paprika →

Man Booker Shortlist Announced

The short list for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 has been announced.  Check out the finalists: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Satin Island by Tom McCarthy A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma Our bookseller picks: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon … Continue reading Man Booker Shortlist Announced →

Merrilee Knits a Crayon Named Esteban and other Creations Inspired by Children’s Books

~post by Merrilee, Children's Bookseller & Assistant IM & one of our many resident crafty folk I suspect that knitting and children's books don't usually go together in the average person's mind, but when you love them both as much as I do, it seems inevitable. I've worked here at BookPeople in the children's section … Continue reading Merrilee Knits a Crayon Named Esteban and other Creations Inspired by Children’s Books →

Sarah’s Fall Reading List

Sarah H. is a badass bookseller who takes Texas book slingin' to a whole new level. She currently helms BookPeople's non-stop, party-all-the-time Internet Orders department. When not at work, she can be found researching Austin's deep, dark literary underbelly. Look for her in the Sci Fi section and just about anywhere high caliber, boundary-defying, genre-bending … Continue reading Sarah’s Fall Reading List →

Amy Stewart brings GIRL WAITS WITH GUN to BookPeople in October!

We are psyched to welcome one of our favorite people in the world, Amy Stewart, back to BookPeople. We're huge fans of Wicked Plants, Wicked Bugs, and the wonderfully brilliant, The Drunken Botanist, and we're thrilled to celebrate her move over to the fiction genre with Girl Waits With Gun on Wednesday, October 7 at 7PM. … Continue reading Amy Stewart brings GIRL WAITS WITH GUN to BookPeople in October! →

It’s the End of the World…and We Love It!

Let’s face it: the world is going to end...and we’re obsessed with it. It’s all over our news, our movies, our television shows, even--especially--our belief systems. Whether it’s eschatology (a theology concerned with the final events of human history, or the “end times”), millenarianism (a belief in a coming transformation), the end of certain ancient … Continue reading It’s the End of the World…and We Love It! →