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This Tuesday, November 24, Ethan Hawke will join us here at BookPeople to speak about and sign his new book, Rules For a Knight. This is a significant event not only because we adore Ethan, but because he is OUR HOMETOWN BOY - even if he isn't always so sure about it. "Well Austin has a lot … Continue reading Welcome Home, Ethan Hawke!
Deep in the Infinite Image: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Discusses Zachary Thomas Dodson’s Bats of the Republic Bats! Texas! Overlapping genres! Parallel timelines! Archival records! Full disclosure: I am an archivist who is a former graphic designer--who also has a weak spot for misunderstood animals. If there is any book that is written … Continue reading Deep in the Infinite Image: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Discusses Bats of the Republic
Congratulations to the winners of this year's National Book Awards, which were announced last night in New York City. Learn more about the finalists and see footage from the award ceremony on the National Book Foundation's website. NONFICTION Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates FICTION Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson POETRY Voyage of … Continue reading 2015 National Book Award Winners Announced
Catify to Satisfy: Simple Solutions for Creating a Cat-Friendly Home by Jackson Galaxy (speaking & signing at BookPeople this Friday, 11/20!) Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet’s hit show My Cat from Hell, and Kate Benjamin, cat design wizard, show cat guardians everywhere how to use home design tricks to address everyday cat care issues. … Continue reading New Books! 11/17/15
Who would have thought that a six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia would have started one of the best "fringe" western swing bands of its time, and still keep comin' right at ya! More than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards later, Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world, led by … Continue reading Ray Benson is Comin’ Right at Ya!
The lights in your train car flicker as the subway changes tracks, making an unexpected detour through forgotten caverns deep below the city. Pale eyes shine back at you through fogged and graffiti-scarred windows as you try to make sense of your surroundings. Gaining speed, your train plummets past abandoned stations, illegible insignia scrawled in … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Book Club Has Touched The Rail That Is The Lesser Dead!
We are honored and excited to host Isabel Allende this coming Monday, November 16 at 7PM, in conversation with Austin author Antonio Ruiz-Camacho. Allende’s books, all written in her native Spanish, have been translated into more than 35 languages and have sold more than 65 million copies. Many of them are magic-realist family sagas that … Continue reading Internationally Bestselling Author ISABEL ALLENDE Comes to BookPeople
The turn of the last century marked an explosion of continental European writing and a literary movement that would evolve into modernism, existentialism, and postmodernism. Many of the names in this scene comprise the familiar mainstays of the classics section at the bookstore, but then there is Robert Walser. More popular during his brush with fame than any … Continue reading STAFF PICK: Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser
We were absolutely delighted to have Mary Gaitskill in our store to speak about and sign her new novel, The Mare. While she was here, she left us with a list of books to read, and now we're passing that list on to you! Snow by Orhan Pamuk Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular … Continue reading Reading Recommendations from Mary Gaitskill
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham (speaking & signing 11/17) Pulitzer Prize winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his … Continue reading New Books! 11/10/15
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