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Pierce Brown, author of the wildly popular Red Rising scifi trilogy, comes to BookPeople this Sunday, February 14th, at 3 PM. It will be a perfect Valentine's event since we love Pierce Brown so much. A bunch of folks here at the store have been reading and re-reading his trilogy in anticipation of Brown's visit. Welcome … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week: The Pierce Brown Edition
We're getting ready to celebrate Valentine's Day with the one and only Pierce Brown! He'll speak and sign the finale of his Red Rising trilogy, Morning Star, in our store Sunday, 2/14 at 3PM. Books and tickets are now available. When and how did the original idea for Red Rising first pop into your head? … Continue reading An Interview with Pierce Brown
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for their monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, BookPeople will highlight the Statesman’s top recommended read for Austin. February's pick is Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century by Daniel Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer will join us here at BookPeople Friday, February … Continue reading Statesman Selects in February: EXIT RIGHT by Daniel Oppenheimer
Mo Daviau will speak & sign Every Anxious Wave here at BookPeople next Wednesday, February 10 at 7! 1. What came first in the inception of this book - time travel or music? Time travel. The majority of my daydreams involve time travel. For most of my life, I've been impatient about getting to something … Continue reading Wormholes & Indie Bands: An Interview with Mo Daviau
This post comes from Scott Butki. Sarah Barnes has combined her storytelling skills learned as a newspaper reporter for various newspapers, most recently the Austin American-Statesman, with quite a story - about raising a daughter with an atypical brain - to produce a fascinating memoir. I'm going to steal a quote from the back of … Continue reading An Interview With Sarah Barnes
Who would have thought that a six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia would have started one of the best "fringe" western swing bands of its time, and still keep comin' right at ya! More than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards later, Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world, led by … Continue reading Ray Benson is Comin’ Right at Ya!
We are honored and excited to host Isabel Allende this coming Monday, November 16 at 7PM, in conversation with Austin author Antonio Ruiz-Camacho. Allende’s books, all written in her native Spanish, have been translated into more than 35 languages and have sold more than 65 million copies. Many of them are magic-realist family sagas that … Continue reading Internationally Bestselling Author ISABEL ALLENDE Comes to BookPeople
We love Mary Gaitskill for her gorgeous and daring short fiction and novels, such as Bad Behaviorand the National Book Award finalist, Veronica. Her latest novel, The Mare, is a no-holds-barred dive into the psychology of two women - one grown and living in the suburbs; one stepping into gritty adolescence in Brooklyn - as … Continue reading MARY GAITSKILL Brings THE MARE to BookPeople!
It’s here, the book we’ve all been waiting for, the epic conclusion to Austin author and illustrator Edward Carey’s Iremonger Trilogy, Lungdon. Carey has taken us through The Heap House, digging up secrets and whispering to objects; he’s opened our eyes to Foulsham as objects change to people and people change to objects; and now … Continue reading An Uncommon Evening with Edward Carey
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for their monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, BookPeople will highlight the Statesman’s top recommended read for Austin. November's pick is Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by author, actress and rockstar Carrie Brownstein. Brownstein will appear in conversation with Austin’s Liz Lambert at Central Presbyterian … Continue reading November’s Statesman Selects: HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL by Carrie Brownstein
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