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The (completely wonderful) Austin based small press, A Strange Object, launched their online magazine (Covered With Fur) this week!!! This is very exciting news. Check out their fiction, Are You Running Away?, by Bess Winter, and their not-fiction, Dear Albert, Dear Allison, by Ander Monson, in this week's issue. Alia Volz's essay, In Any Light, is about a childhood spent … Continue reading Weekend Reading
From Austin's very own, A Strange Object, comes a new title this upcoming Tuesday, November 4th. Already well-established as an independent press to watch with the release of its previous two books, Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Austin author Kelly Luce and Misadventure by Nicholas Grider, we've been anxiously awaiting … Continue reading A Look at the Upcoming Release from A Strange Object: OUR SECRET LIFE IN THE MOVIES
Here it is, as promised, the second half of our look at some of our most highly anticipated books of the Fall 2014 season. Check out Part One right over here. All books are now available to pre-order via bookpeople.com. More Books To Look For In The Final Quarter Of 2014: Our Secret Life in the … Continue reading Fall 2014 Book Preview – Part Two
Nicholas Grider is an artist and writer with an MFA in both from CalArts. Misadventure is his debut collection of short stories, published by Austin small press A Strange Object. Unflinching and raw, these stories will grab you by the shoulders and sit you down until you've read every single one. Ben, of our booksellers, … Continue reading BookPeople Q&A with Nicholas Grider: MISADVENTURE
Things to read while you're standing in line at the supermarket this weekend that will be way more interesting than just checking facebook again: Tin House Flash Fiction Friday: A Good Body by Virgie Townsend Guernica interview with Rachel Kushner, National Book Award finalist & author of The Flamethrowers. From the American Short Fiction blog: Bourbon … Continue reading Weekend Reading
FICTION Misadventure by Nicholas Grider "A debut that short fiction lovers shouldn't miss- or lovers of the fringe, the darkly funny, the raw glimpses of secret and flaw. Bold readers won't be disappointed & timid readers will be surprised." - Ben The latest book from Austin small press A Strange Object! The Museum of Extraordinary … Continue reading New Releases – 2/18/14
Misadventure by Nicholas Grider Reviewed by Ben I want to talk about something for a minute here. I’ve been in Austin since August, so I’m new to the scene and you’ll have to forgive me. It was a couple months after moving before BookPeople took me in from the cold(?), but it didn’t take me nearly … Continue reading MISADVENTURE: Urgent and Unflinching
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart On Sale 1/7/14 Finally, the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story; Absurdistan; and The Russian Debutante's Handbook tells all. Moving from memories of his early childhood in Russia to his family's immigration to Queens to his present day life as a writer, Shteyngart's humor pulls heartstrings with stories of his one-armed … Continue reading Books to Look Forward to in 2014: Part One
We are SUPER excited to announce that this month's Statesman Selects pick is the fabulous new short story collection by Kelly Luce, Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail. The book is the first published by the fine folks at A Strange Object, the new Austin-based small press we may have mentioned one … Continue reading Statesman Selects: THREE SCENARIOS IN WHICH HANA SASAKI GROWS A TAIL
They look like this: The beautiful sandy animation was done by artist Corrie Francis Parks. Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail is a new collection of short stories from Austin author Kelly Luce. You'll find it on our shelves October 1st. It's the first book to come from Austin's new small press, … Continue reading When Book Trailers Are Art
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