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What a wonderful year it's been! ...for escaping the cold, unrelenting realities of life and delving into the edifying pages of a good book! As the curtain closes on 2016, we chatted-it-up with our friendly-neighborhood booksellers about their Top 5 favorite reads. We assembled some great recommendations here, but this isn't your ordinary end-of-the-year list. … Continue reading The Best Books We Read In 2016
Adult coloring books. That's right: last year's big gift trend is still going strong. But just looking at the sheer wall of coloring book titles can get overwhelming. How do you pick one? Aren't they all the same, really? In my experience, a lot of them are. Like any pleasure worth the emotional investment to cross … Continue reading Gift Guide: 2016’s Best “Alternative” Adult Coloring Books
Roxane Gay - Difficult Women "This is more than a book about difficult women. These are stories about how difficult situations transform ordinary women. These women are our friends, neighbors, sisters, ourselves. These stories are, of course, difficult to read, but necessary to understand how women deal with and internalize pain. How that pain doesn't destroy, … Continue reading New Releases 12/13!
Every month here at BookPeople we like to spotlight a smaller, independent publishing house that we love. These Indie Presses are helping to push the literary world forward with unique and adventurous work and we’re proud to showcase their titles in our store. This month check out the wonderful Restless Books! Recognizing the limited exposure … Continue reading Indie Press Spotlight: Restless Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfL4xKQeSfo Need some book ideas for that rock and roll miscreant in your life for this year's holidays? Let's give it a shot here. In no particular order, here are a few that came out new this year in either hardback or paperback: (oh yeah, all of these are of course available at BookPeople, but … Continue reading Holiday Gifty Ideas for The Ayatollah of RocknRollahs in your life?
César Aira - Ema, the Captive Newly translated to English, Ema the Captive is one of the earliest novels of the prolific and award-winning author César Aira. Told in his masterful and immediately recognizable style, Ema is set in 19th-century Argentina admist the violent conflicts of native peoples and European colonizers. Aira twists this broad … Continue reading New Books 12/6!
Jason Diamond - Searching for John Hughes For Jason Diamond, a Jewish kid from a broken home growing up in suburban Chicago, John Hughes and his films were his whole life -- a love and connection that manifested in a dream to write THE John Hughes biography -- a biography that, with no training, background, or … Continue reading New Books 11/29!
Each month I'll be investigating events around town that might pique the interest of the book nerds, the literature obsessed, and those who enjoy stimulating entertainment and/or socializing. Not surprisingly, Austin has a number of things going on every month the Book People community would enjoy. Paramount Theater Presents: Science Summit w/ Dr. Brian Greene, Dr. … Continue reading Austin Events for the Literati – December
Rest easy, book lovers – new fiction and good times are coming soon to your favorite bookstore! Pulitzer-Prize winner Michael Chabon will be here on December 13th. We finally have our hands on Michael Chabon’s eagerly anticipated eighth novel, Moonglow – his first since 2012’s Telegraph Avenue! In the grand tradition of epics like The Amazing … Continue reading MOONGLOW lives up to the hype
Michael Chabon - Moonglow A gripping, poignant, tragicomic, scrupulously researched and wholly imaginary transcript of a life that spanned the dark heart of the twentieth century, Moonglow is also a tour de force of speculative history in which Chabon attempts to reconstruct the mysterious origins and fate of Chabon Scientific, Co., an authentic mail-order novelty company … Continue reading New Books 11/22!
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