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Thug Kitchen is coming to BookPeople! On Thursday, October 16th at 7PM, the Internet duo brings new recipes to us live and in-person so that you too can eat like you give a f*ck. Our staff has been buzzing about this event for some time, and the hype is only growing. After keeping their identities … Continue reading THUG KITCHEN Comes to BookPeople! NSFW!
Mahatma Gandhi was born 145 years ago today. To mark the occasion, we're celebrating Austin children's author Bethany Hegedus's beautiful nonfiction picture book, created in collaboration with Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, Grandfather Gandhi. Bethany had a terrific launch party here earlier this year, with many touching moments addressing how we handle human anger and turn it into a … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Gandhi!
We’re happy to announce that the Statesman Selects pick for October is Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle. Darnielle is the singer-songwriter behind indie-rock favorite The Mountain Goats and is considered to be one of our greatest modern lyricists. (One BookPeople staffer's personal favorite MG lyric: "I was having visions of sugar pastry cooked … Continue reading Statesman Selects: Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
by Mo Fact: children's books are illustrated. Always illustrated with gorgeous, resplendent drawings of overzealous butterfly larva, daughters of wealthy but absent parents allowed to maraud luxury hotels, and still rooms painted in primary colors. Children's books are ALWAYS ILLUSTRATED. FALSE. Enter B.J. Novak to take that patent assumption away from the book-loving … Continue reading B.J. Novak says NO to Pictures!
HARDCOVER FICTION MysteryPeople's New Release Pick of the Day: The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan At the center of this searing, fever dream of a novel are two men—a killer awaiting trial, and a troubled young deputy—sitting across from each other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: John Gload, so … Continue reading New Releases – 9/30/14
The Kitchen Ecosystem: Integrating Recipes to Create Delicious Meals by Eugenia Bone Nourishing Broth: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World by Sally Fallon Morell and Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN ~post by Sutterfield Autumn! Finally! And hooray! The autumnal equinox has past, ushering in that most lovely of seasons. For us here in Central … Continue reading SUTTER’S KITCHEN: FALL EDITION!
BEN White Girls by Hilton Als "Wonderful collection of essays from this year. Als explores identity within society and self. Intellectual, poetic, and Junot Diaz's must-read for the year." CAROLYN The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich "Fantastic! This book was given to me by a friend. It is composed of diary entries that … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Merritt Tierce's debut novel, Love Me Back, hit our booksellers hard. The story of Marie, a waitress at an upscale restaurant in Dallas, is told in cutting scenes of sex and drug abuse juxtaposed against crystalline descriptions of Marie's love for her daughter. This novel is rough and unapologetic, full of powerful sentences that tear through … Continue reading Praise For A Bold New Texas Writer
BookPeople is joining other independent bookstores and businesses across the country to raise our voice in support of e-fairness and to ask you, our customers, to do the same. Congress is poised to vote on a long-standing ban on internet access taxes and attached to that bill is sales tax fairness, an issue that significantly affects … Continue reading Support E-Fairness Now!
~post by Steve(n) W. “When the Stand Up Sit Down Book Club approached me to write an introduction for their blog to promote the September meeting of their regional book group, I thought to myself, 'Well, I don't want to do that,' and then I spent the rest of the day like I spend most … Continue reading Stand Up Sit Down Book Club: COOL, CALM & CONTENTIOUS
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