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Fellow book lovers may recall a certain billboard that was all the rage back in the Fall of 2011: Indeed, Mr. Eugenides and his vest (and their novel, The Marriage Plot) caused quite a stir. Well, now it's a new year, a new Fall season, and we have a new novelist we have officially deemed Billboard Worthy: … Continue reading Billboard Worthy
Ties That Bind: Stories of Love & Gratitude From the First Ten Years of StoryCorps by Dave Isay Reviewed by Katie G. I love listening to people's real life stories, so StoryCorps has been on my radar for a long long while (along with so many of the other fine programs on NPR. This American … Continue reading Ties That Bind (and Make You Cry)
~post by Brian C. On the last Sunday of every month, a ramshackle group of close readers get together to talk about a novel. This group has been meeting for five years, and we call ourselves The Voyage Out Book Group. We read in three month cycles centered on a particular region. We consider it … Continue reading What Is “The Great American Novel” All About?
~post by Julie W. Last week Meghan G., our Kid's Book Buyer, and I took a little trip out west, where the air is cold(er than it is here) and the mountains are high. Denver. City of dreams. City of this year's Mountains and Plains trade show. The Mountains and Plains Independent Bookseller Association is … Continue reading What Happens in Denver Stays in Denver. Except for These Pictures.
Dear Boss, We keep on hearing the police have congratulated the Nightmare Factory book club on another successful month but they wont fix us just yet. We have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. Reading and rereading Tales of Jack the Ripper, edited by Ross E. Lockhart, … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween, Day 14: TALES OF JACK THE RIPPER
Dog Shaming by Pascal Lemire Reviewed by: Shappy (and Alvy and Max) This past March I left my two dachshunds, Alvy Singer and Max Bialystock, home alone for a few hours in my apartment in what I like to call the "Village Of Screaming Children". You see, the children that live below me LOVE to … Continue reading Man’s Best Friend. Most of the Time.
We've fallen in love with, Sophie's Squash, a delightfully weird new picture book written by Pat Zietlow Miller and illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf. Our Kid's Book Buyer Meghan G. is a big fan: "Sophie's Squash is about a girl who adopts a squash as a pet. As the squash slowly rots and rots, she refuses … Continue reading Chris Barton talks to Pat Zietlow Miller
~post by Joe H.P. Lovecraft may well be the most important writer of horror fiction of the 20th century. Taking the strands of American and British weird tales and weaving them together into a braid of his own making, Lovecraft managed to create a genre and a singular vision that is influencing authors to this … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 11 “H.P. Lovecraft”
~ post by Steve B. Yesterday was a very special day in the life of BookPeople gift certificates. After a 25 year rest in a bag at Alison Brause's house in Austin, a gift certificate from 1988 came home to BookPeople. Alison found the certificate a few days ago and decided to see if it … Continue reading A Gift Card, 25 Years in the Waiting
~post by Joe T. Dan Simmons is a man who has made a strong name for himself in both the worlds of horror and speculative fiction. His Hyperion Cantos series has won numerous Locus awards, a Hugo, and has been nominated multiple times for the Nebula awards. His horror fiction career has spanned from … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 9 “Dan Simmons”
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