The Nightmare Factory Reads Shirley Jackson’s Classic The Haunting of Hill House

Fearfully huddled together for the indefinable comfort of human contact in the middle of the haunted BookPeople coffee shop, the Nightmare Factory Book Club listened, quivering mostly with terror but a little from the indefinable thrill of human contact, as something powerful knocked over the bookshelves. The candelabras on the tables flickered and blew out … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Reads Shirley Jackson’s Classic The Haunting of Hill House →

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced in a ceremony at the New School in New York City last night. In addition to the winners in the six categories listed below, Toni Morrison received the  Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and Phil Klay (here in the store tonight!) received the John Leonard Prize for Redeployment. Since 1974, National Book … Continue reading 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners →

Announcing Trust Fall #3: BAREFOOT DOGS

Tuesday night, at our standing-room-only launch event with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, we announced that Barefoot Dogs is our next Trust Fall pick! This debut collection of stories from Camacho, an Austin author, tells the story of a Mexican family from the different perspectives of its members. Booksellers Raul and Jim B. both read early copies of the book and … Continue reading Announcing Trust Fall #3: BAREFOOT DOGS →

We’re Hiring! Bookseller Positions Available

Love BookPeople? Love books? Come work with us! BookPeople is the largest independent bookstore in Texas. During our more than forty-year history, we have gained national recognition and become an iconic Austin destination. From our beginnings in 1970 as a small new age bookstore in West Campus called Grok Books to our current downtown location, … Continue reading We’re Hiring! Bookseller Positions Available →

Weekender Passes Available for Austin Food & Wine Festival

We're looking forward to being on hand once again for the decadent, delicious Austin Food & Wine Festival, happening out on Auditorium Shores the weekend of April 24-16, 2015. As AFWF's official bookseller, we stock the festival store with beautiful cookbooks by chefs appearing at the festival, some of whom will be signing after their demos. … Continue reading Weekender Passes Available for Austin Food & Wine Festival →

What We’re Reading This Week

STEVEN W. Stray Decorum by George Singleton "This collection of Southern Gothic short stories features ordinary people getting by, and ties characters together through their common strands of desperation in the moment, radical self-doubt, and the general feeling of being a stray. Down on their luck con artists, drunks, thieves, monkeys, and dogs - that … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

Required Reading Revisited Book Club – April Recap and May Update!

In The Required Reading Revisited Book Club we focus on books considered “Required Reading” by most educational institutions, i.e. books you read (or were supposed to read) in school – either high school or university. In March's meeting we discussed Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. In April we followed up with Toni Morrison's Sula, a … Continue reading Required Reading Revisited Book Club – April Recap and May Update! →