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American Express is getting behind local businesses again this year with their Small Business Saturday campaign. It works like this - American Express card holders can get a one-time $25 statement credit from AmEx if they register or link their AmEx card (visit the Small Business Saturday facebook page to find out how to do … Continue reading Shop Local on Small Business Saturday!
"The breadth of talent still astounds - Willie Nelson, Janis Joplin, Jerry Jeff Walker, Doug Sahm, Delbert McClinton, Michael Martin Murphey, Willis Alan Ramsey, Kinky Friedman, Steve Fromholz, Bobby Bridger, Billy Joe Shaver, Marcia Ball, and Townes Van Zandt. Some are living legends. Others turned their talents to new venues when the ever-fluid Austin scene … Continue reading There is a Reason, There is a Rhyme, There is Bobby Bridger
If you're a fan of Christopher Paolini, then there's only one thing you're doing this weekend, and that's coming to BookPeople tomorrow, 11/19 at 2p, to meet him and have him sign the final book in his bestselling series, Inheritance. But if fantasy fiction isn't your thing, or maybe you're looking for things to do … Continue reading Cool Things Happening in Austin This Weekend
Robyn Liesl and Po by Lauren Oliver "I can't stop thinking about this book. It has all of the classic fairy tale elements that never get old such as magic, a little girl locked in an attic (Liesl), a wicked stepmother, etc. Only Oliver takes things a step further and adds in a ghost from … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
~Post by Brian C. There’s this saying, “Mississippi, first in Literature, last in literacy”. It’s an odd saying, and while the second part is full of old style, anti-Southern resentment and bigotry, the first part is perplexing to many. How could one of the poorest, sparsest states in the union, almost known for reluctance to … Continue reading Mississippi, First in Literature Once Again
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 National Book Award, announced last night! FICTION Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward NONFICTION The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Steven Greenblatt POETRY Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai And congratulations to Books & … Continue reading 2011 National Book Award Winners
Books! Books! Brand new books! They're here! They weren't here last week! Now they're here! (Blurbs courtesy of publisher jacket copy.) Then Again by Diane Keaton In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the … Continue reading New Releases
This Thursday, November 17, 7p, the good folks at the Harry Ransom Center are hosting a panel discussion, The Future of Independent Bookselling: The View from Austin. Our own CEO Steve Bercu, BookWoman's Susan Post, and Russell Etchen of Domy Books will talk about where they see indie bookselling going, in Austin and beyond. This … Continue reading Thurs @ the HRC – The Future of Independent Bookselling: The View from Austin
Book: Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life Reviewed by: Julie W. In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Ann Beattie describes talking to a class of 20-somethings about her new book, Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines A Life: "As I elaborated...I got a big surprise: while they all knew what Richard Nixon looked … Continue reading Book Review: ‘Mrs. Nixon’ by Ann Beattie
~Post by Mandy Brooks This past week I attempted to make fried chicken. But not just any old fried chicken - John Besh fried chicken. I was cavalier in my planning - not only did I think I would make delicious fried chicken from his new cookbook, My Family Table, but I decided that I … Continue reading John Besh Fried Chicken Experiment
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