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FICTION HARDCOVER All Our Names by Dinau Mengestu From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes a love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in … Continue reading New Releases – 3/4/14
~post by Consuelo New Orleans is my favorite city, It is like love - beautiful, mysterious, complicated - and you want to keep coming back for more. I try to visit as often as I can, but luckily there is no shortage of books about the Big Easy when that’s not possible. I share with … Continue reading Consuelo is Crazy About the Crescent City
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reviewed by Katie Presley We here at BookPeople were beside ourselves to welcome Ann Patchett to the store earlier this year, as we adore her as not only a favorite author but also a fellow independent bookseller. While she was here, Ann shared with us (and her packed audience) a list … Continue reading BookPeople Review: AMERICANAH – A State of the Union Address
B.O.Q.: An NCIS Special Agent Fran Setliff Novel by N.P. SimpsonReviewed by RaulFor fans of military detective fiction, Simpson provides both a great new detective and a politically sensitive mystery. If you are unaware, there is a special agency that investigates crimes on Marine bases, namely the Naval Criminal Investigative Service – NCIS for short. There are … Continue reading BookPeople Review: B.O.Q. – Murder on a Marine Base
Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere by Don McLeese ~post by Bosco Up in Northeast Texas, outside of Dallas, is a little town you never heard of called Commerce. I was raised there, a small college town with nothing much to it but reasons to leave. Just east of Commerce is Sulphur Springs. Our … Continue reading Bosco Blogs: Dwight Yoakam & Hardcore Honky Tonk
~post by Jan "I find it very interesting that the voices of these three fictional young women, two in the 1970s and one in 2014, are so strikingly familiar to me. And ultimately that's what we love about debut works, the finding of the promise of familiarity." In this month's installment of Book Vloggin' with … Continue reading Book Vloggin’ with Jan: Favorite Debut Novels
The incomparable Owen Egerton's first collection of short stories, How Best to Avoid Dying, is back in print with a fabulous new cover! Huzzah! The Chicago Tribune said of this collection, "...Egerton...applies a laser focus to our search for the sacred, with results that are both darker and more divine." Owen is a veritable staple in Austin's vibrant … Continue reading Author Talk: Q&A With Owen Egerton
New online lit mag! New online lit mag! New online lit mag! Midnight Breakfast. New short fiction from Sara Novic in Guernica. From the vault: "The Dinner Party", a short story by Joshua Ferris published in The New Yorker in 2008. (Ben's about to begin Ferris's upcoming novel, To Rise Again At a Decent Hour, and wanted to warm up. Shameless plug: Ferris … Continue reading Weekend Reading
YA Gotta Hear This: Big news! The Austin Teen Book Festival is now the Texas Teen Book Festival. ATBF has partnered with the Texas Book Festival and St. Edward's University. We're thrilled as ever to be a part of this awesome annual event and very excited for the new partnerships! The Texas Teen Book Festival is … Continue reading Book World Buzz
~post by Katie G. Cover to Reel is a regular column in which I offer my two cents about that age-old debate about whether or not a movie did any kind of justice to the book it's based on. Blue is the Warmest Color (or, La Vie d'Adele - Chapitres 1 & 2) on DVD … Continue reading Cover to Reel: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
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