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The Millions has this exclusive today: the first lines of Haruki Murakami's highly anticipated new novel 1Q84. The novel sold over 100,000 copies its first week on sale in Japan back in 2009 (it's been a long wait for readers here in the States.) Artist Chip Kidd discussed designing the book cover for 1Q84 back … Continue reading First Lines of Haruki Murakami’s ‘1Q84’
Post by BookPerson Joel N. I am an unabashed nerd for life. A lifer. Some of my earliest memories include watching Star Wars and Tron with my dad. By high school I was mainlining 800 page space operas while waiting outside, overnight for tickets to one of life’s biggest disappointments, Star Wars Episode 1 – … Continue reading I Like Sci-Fi Books and I Cannot Lie: A Sci-Fi Reading List
MysteryPeople Pick of the Month: The End of Everything by Megan Abbot Review and Q&A by MysteryPeople Coordinator Scott Montgomery ~ Megan Abbott is a master in that most difficult to define genre, noir. She uses the genre's trademark of people who are ruled by their passions to create characters who are both … Continue reading MysteryPeople Q&A with Noir Queen Megan Abbott
Tonight MysteryPeople is hosting an event with two proud-to-be-independent Texas mystery authors, Reavis Z. Wortham and W. Allen Dark. It is HARD work not only to publish your own book, but to get bookstores to stock it and readers to pay attention to it without the big bucks of the big New York City publishing … Continue reading Indies Love Indies
_______________________________________ Nick - The Thousand Summers of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell "I'm only a little over a hundred pages in, but I'm already enjoying it. From what I understand, it only gets better the further you go. Right now, the stories of Japan at that time and of the Dutch East India Trading … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
We're looking for a contortionist to participate in an event here this fall. Interested parties please send an email detailing your experience to online@bookpeople.com. The event is circus-themed. If you have any other circus talents, please also feel free to email online@bookpeople.com and let us know what you can do. We are interested in showcasing … Continue reading Calling All Contortionists
Tonight at 7p we welcome back bestselling Austin mystery author David Lindsey, now writing as Paul Harper, to speak about and sign the first book in his new series featuring a San Francisco detective, Pacific Heights. Millions of copies of Lindsey's bestselling thrillers have been printed and we're very excited to help him launch this … Continue reading Paul Harper/David Lindsey/Paul Harper
It's been a few years since we've had the pleasure of welcoming mystery writer David Lindsey, now writing as Paul Harper, to BookPeople. On Monday, July 11 at 7p, the wait is over! Lindsey will be here for an event with MysteryPeople, BookPeople's mystery bookstore-within-a-bookstore. He'll be talking about his new thriller, the first in … Continue reading A Note from Paul Harper (aka David Lindsey in Disguise)
It's time for another MysteryPeople event, folks, so you know what that means - Happy Hour! Join us on Saturday, July 9, 5p for Happy Hour with Duane Swierczysnki. Duane is the author of several fast-paced thrillers that are digging a niche with readers who like sharp dialogue, plenty of action, and a wry look … Continue reading Happy Hour with Duane Swierczynski
On Tuesday, July 12, 7pm we have the great pleasure of welcoming novelist and Texas native Stefan Merrill Block to the BookPeople podium. We loved his first novel, The Story of Forgetting (and so did plenty of other people - the Austin Chronicle named it best book of the year 2008, it was chosen as … Continue reading Q&A with Novelist Stefan Merrill Block
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