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This Friday, May 27th at 7pm, we're looking forward to welcoming acclaimed writer Robin Black to read from her collection of short stories, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This. Black's writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Southern Review, One Story, Georgia Review, and many … Continue reading Q&A with Writer Robin Black
__________________________________________ Marie Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco "I'm ten pages away from finishing. To me, it seems like Umberto Eco, a very intelligent and highly respected philosopher and professor of linguistics, researched the heck out of this and then didn't take the judiciary steps necessary to eliminate the extraneous information that detracts from the rest … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
You may remember the first book trailer Gary Shteyngart put together to promote his bestselling novel, Super Sad True Love Story (now out in paperback.) It starred James Franco and revealed the sad truth that, though he's published three highly acclaimed novels and teaches courses in creative writing, Gary can't read. Now, in a brand … Continue reading Super Awesome Funny Shteyngart Book Trailer
Here are a few news tidbits from this the week in the book world, in brief: Liberty Media made a $1 billion bid to buy Barnes and Noble (contingent on Len Riggio staying put.) Philip Roth won the Man Booker Prize and one of the judges was none too pleased. In fact, author and publisher … Continue reading As the Book World Turns….
Liz Wyckoff works as an Events Host at BookPeople, and as Outreach Coordinator at American Short Fiction, the nationally renowned literary magazine based right here in Austin. She donned both hats to conduct this interview with ASF Editor Jill Meyers and Associate Editor Callie Collins in honor of National Short Story Month. ASF publishes short … Continue reading Q&A with the Editors of American Short Fiction
Here's what's hot off the presses and on the shelves this week (blurbs provided by the book's publishers): HARDCOVER FICTION Vaclav & Lena by Haley Tanner - Offering a new glimpse at the American immigrant experience, a stunningly gifted young novelist delivers a timeless love story set in New York's Russian migrant community. Embassytown by … Continue reading New Releases This Week
_____________________________________________________ Elizabeth, our Adult Book Buyer - The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje (author of The English Patient) "This book comes out in the fall and I think it's going to be huge. It's about two boys on a ship to England in the early 1950s. They go through the Indian Ocean, Suez Canal, Mediterannean, … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Here's what got us talking in the book world this week, short and sweet: Nevada steps up the fight to make Amazon pay sales tax in the state. Officials in the state of Texas estimate that Amazon owes the state $269 million in unpaid taxes. In the latest development in the Three Cups of Tea … Continue reading As the Book World Turns…
With Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Steve Earle's booksigning inching closer by the minute, we are getting really excited. To tide us over (and you, too), here's a portion of a documentary filmed about Earle's new book and album, both titled I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kTjHr4ZLA Earle will be at BookPeople Wednesday, May … Continue reading I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
BookPeople is a bookstore. Our goal is to sell books and to make money. We have other goals, but we always want to make sure we sell books and make money. Therefore, our online presence is also about selling books. With that in mind, the BookPeople blog is a positive place. I don’t really review … Continue reading Review: ‘How the Two Ivans Quarrelled’ by Nikolai Gogol
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