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In The Rabbit Slaughter, Vincent Crapanzano details numerous first hand accounts of "sacred sacrifices." What separates the sacred from the profane? What circumstances or characteristics create an authentically sacred space? Where is the line that divides sacrifice from slaughter? No human sacrifices are discussed in this essay, but many animals meet their sacred/profane end. This essay is an excerpt … Continue reading weekend reading
Hello Friends and Fellow Readers who dwell in and ramble happily through the seemingly eternal fathoms of the grand and wondrous book multiverse! As ever, we here at the BookPeople blog strive to bring you the latest in newsworthy items from the ever expanding reaches of the literary cosmos: Pulitzer Prize Winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita … Continue reading News from the Book Multiverse
Tonight we're hosting one of our most highly anticipated events of 2015: Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, will appear here at BookPeople in conversation with Austin City Limits Producer Tony Lickona about her much-talked about new memoir, Girl in a Band. You can't turn around this week without bumping into a review, interview or other … Continue reading Kim Gordon Kim Gordon Kim Gordon Kim Gordon
Top Shelf in March: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson Reviewed by Raul The story of the sinking of the liner Lusitania is murky with the passage of more than a hundred years. While most people will remember the Costa Concordia tragedy or the illness that struck passengers on board the … Continue reading Top Shelf in March: DEAD WAKE by Erik Larson
“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid.” Fish in a Tree, is a new chapter book by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. It focuses on a smart girl named Ally who struggles with dyslexia and often … Continue reading Chris Barton talks with Lynda Mullaly Hunt
HARDCOVER FICTION I AM RADAR by Reif Larsen New novel from the bestselling author of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF T. S. SPIVET. This is a kaleidoscopic novel that draws on the furthest reaches of quantum physics, forgotten history, and mind-bending art to tell the story of Radar Radmanovic. Larsen is here at BookPeople Thursday, March … Continue reading New Books! 2/24/15
Just booked: Bethenny Frankel, bestselling author, reality TV star, natural foods chef, and creator of the incredibly successful Skinny Girl line of food and lifestyle products, is bringing her new book of relationship advice to BookPeople! Frankel will speak about and sign I Suck at Relationships So You Don't Have To at BookPeople on Sunday, April 12 at … Continue reading Bethenny Frankel Comes to BookPeople!
BookPeople is thrilled to host nearly staff-run a dozen book clubs every month. All but one of the clubs meets right here in the store. Following are this week's discussions. We hope you find one that fits your favorite genre! All BookPeople book club meetings are free and open to the public. Book club picks are 10% … Continue reading Book Club Meeting Round-up For Week 02/23/15
There's a new(ish) literary journal in Austin, The Austin Review! From their most recent issue, An Execution, by Gabe Durham, is a comment about the death penalty and how, in our modern technological age, the internet grants a type of anonymity that often leads to less-than-well-thought-out commentary on serious issues- like the loss of life. The Austin Review … Continue reading weekend reading
Hello once again, friends an fellow intrepid explorers of the ever expanding, ever bountiful, mysterious and yet-to-be-fully-grokked-by-mere-humans book multiverse! We're back with yet another report on what's new out there among the literary nebulae and grammatically galactic goings on: A lost Sherlock Holmes short story has been discovered in the attic of historian Walter Elliot. The story … Continue reading News from the Book Multiverse
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