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We're looking forward to being on hand once again for the decadent, delicious Austin Food & Wine Festival, happening out on Auditorium Shores the weekend of April 24-16, 2015. As AFWF's official bookseller, we stock the festival store with beautiful cookbooks by chefs appearing at the festival, some of whom will be signing after their demos. … Continue reading Weekender Passes Available for Austin Food & Wine Festival
HARDCOVER FICTION Barefoot Dogs: Stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho Book Release Event 3/10/15 “What people lose defines how they live their lives and this vibrant collection of stories illustrates this point with a literary verve that is electrifying! When the patriarch of a rich and thriving Mexican family is kidnapped, the family scatters across the world … Continue reading New Books! 3/10/2015
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. In March's meeting we discussed Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. In April we followed up with Toni Morrison's Sula, a … Continue reading Required Reading Revisited Book Club – April Recap and May Update!
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera Reviewed by Ben Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera is nine chapters of slim and transgressive fiction. Shortlisted for the Romulo Gallegos Prize and translated into seven languages, Signs is a timely publication here in the United States. Migration and immigration, … Continue reading Book Review: SIGNS PRECEDING THE END OF THE WORLD
Finalists for the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Awards have been announced! Congratulations to these terrific nominees. Are you rooting for a favorite? Jeffery Renard Allen, author of Song of the Shank Jennifer Clement, author of Prayers for the Stolen Atticus Lish, author of Preparation for the Next Life Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Jenny … Continue reading PEN/Faulkner Finalists Announced
Hello Friends and Intrepid Explorers of the great and unfathomable depths of the eternally expanding, perpetually ineffable, gloriously vast and deliciously mysterious book multiverse! As ever, we here at the BookPeople blog have returned from our own amazing adventures sailing said galactic seas to bring you the latest in newsy goodness from the far reaches … Continue reading News from the Book Multiverse
From Joyland, The House Breathes, by Brandi Wells, tells the story of Crim as she awaits the return of her parents to their shared home. But her parents are gone, and what's left is her ever present boyfriend, Sal, and the shifting reality of something she once held precious. Also from Joyland, The Party, by Rion Amilcar Scott, is a … Continue reading weekend reading
The recent publication of Cat Out of Hell, the new novel from Lynne Truss, bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, has apparently caused quite a stir in the feline community. Melville House, the novel's publisher, has published this investigative video report: Raul, our first floor inventory manager, read the book for himself and weighs in: "A pastiche of … Continue reading Special Report: Cats Respond to CAT OUT OF HELL
~post by Julie W. Today I drove down to Texas State University's Wittliff Collections where Amy Hempel (AMY. HEMPEL.) gave a reading. First of all. Amy Hempel is my patron saint of short fiction. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel was one of the first books I purchased from the very first indie bookstore that employed me. I sought out … Continue reading Are You Sitting Down? Amy Hempel Co-Wrote A Novel & It’s Coming Out in July !!!
Social Media Identity Theft, contemporary Grimm's Fairy Tale, Victorian Proto-Feminists, and an adventure story in our modern financial crisis…
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