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They’ve Come for Your Guts I named my in-store display ‘They’ve Come for Your Guts’ because each of these writers took my guts in loving, weathered hands and twisted, tweaked, polished, pinched, and molded them into something a little different than what they were before. On one level, I’m saying that the experience of reading … Continue reading They’ve Come for Your Guts
It's impossible to speak about Arundhati Roy without also speaking about The God of Small Things. Published in 1997, it won the Booker prize and has been translated into over forty languages, garnering worldwide acclaim. I first encountered it about a decade following that and immediately fell in love. The God of Small Things is … Continue reading Top Shelf: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
This Q&A with Omar El Akkad, author of American War, was done by his publisher and is re-posted here with their permission. Our review of the book can be found here. Q: When did you begin working on American War, and was there a particular event you would say was the genesis of the novel? … Continue reading Q&A with Omar El Akkad
If you're a BookPeople regular, you might have walked in on our conversations about Star Wars before. Yes, we were talking about Episode VII for months before it came out...yes we were (mostly) devastated when they decided the Star Wars literary universe was no longer canon...yes still we went to the opening night of The … Continue reading May the Fourth Be With You!
This post come from Meike Alana. Dr. Michael Greger will speak and sign How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease Friday, February 19 at 7PM. At the beginning of the year, book stores are overwhelmed by new releases promoting weight loss. For most people, “losing weight” tops their … Continue reading Meike Reviews HOW NOT TO DIE by Michael Greger
This post comes from our inventory manager Jan. It all started with the nightmare. In the midst of Kim Yeong-hye and her husband’s mediocre, middle-class marriage, the dream about blood and meat and carnage. To make the dream stop, Yeong-hye stops eating meat. Then all food. Eventually, she becomes more plant-like than animal to … Continue reading Spotlight on International Fiction: THE VEGETARIAN by Han Kang
This year, four science fiction-loving booksellers will delve into Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents: The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films, the new book by film historian Douglas Brode. They'll watch the movies, read Brode's take, and tell you - point blank - how they feel about all of it. Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost … Continue reading Booksellers On Fantastic Planets: The Saga Begins
Kirsten Bakis' The Thief, is a beautifully written short story that transcends the bleak reality it represents. It lends a mesmerizing hope to an otherwise hopeless condition. Set in 1910 New York City, Sally, a maid for the wealthy Whittinger family, is fixated on a particular vase the family owns.She knows possession of the vase … Continue reading weekend reading
The turn of the last century marked an explosion of continental European writing and a literary movement that would evolve into modernism, existentialism, and postmodernism. Many of the names in this scene comprise the familiar mainstays of the classics section at the bookstore, but then there is Robert Walser. More popular during his brush with fame than any … Continue reading STAFF PICK: Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser
My Bliss, by Bonnie Jo Campbell, explores marriage. Or, marrying things and not marrying things. It is a short short story, and very strange. Here's a line: "How foolish, my marrying the truck, the shovel, the hair, the hope, the broom, the mail—oh, waiting and waiting for the mail to come!" From Pank. From LitHub, Eileen Myles in … Continue reading weekend reading
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