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(Post by Chris Hoyt) Put on your ear muffs Texas 'cause your not going to like this one bit. I smoked a brisket on a natural gas grill. Now before you go raising all kinds of hell about it, hear me out. In my own defense, it was the Sunday following a certain South By … Continue reading The Robb Walsh Texas Eats Dinner Party
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 BOOKPEOPLE TECH GUY OFFERS TO FLY NICK HARKAWAY TO US We at BookPeople have been deeply in love with Nick Harkaway's book The Gone-Away World ever since it spread through the office like a ninja-induced FOX fire. So when we heard Harkaway was bringing us a new book, … Continue reading BookPeople Tech Guy Offers to Fly Nick Harkaway to US
We're currently looking for a couple of full time, entry-level booksellers to work evenings and weekends. Applications are available on our website. Completed applications should be dropped off at BookPeople (603 N. Lamar Blvd) by this Monday, March 26. Applications submitted via email or any other means will not be considered.
I didn't expect to enjoy A Partial History of Lost Causes. Another debut novel by another up-and-coming young author? Sure. Right. So Gary Shteyngart blurbed it? All right, whatever, I'll take a reader home. It sat on my shelf a while. Then one morning it was almost Christmas, I was getting on a plane to … Continue reading Read This Book: ‘A Partial History of Lost Causes’
Feast your funny bones on the trailer for Jenny Lawson's memoir Let's Pretend This Never Happened: Advance copies of the book have been making the rounds and our booksellers concur - if you're a fan of David Sedaris, you're going to love this. We're stoked to have Jenny here at the store on April 25! … Continue reading For Intellectual Misfits
So many good books on sale today! As usual, blurbs provided by the books' publishers. HARDCOVER FICTION Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway The son of infamous London criminal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, Joe Spork has turned his back on his family’s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life fixing antique clocks. That orderly existence … Continue reading New Releases
Three more rounds of the Tournament of Books have come and gone, and not without some serious, serious upset. We're now done with Opening Round, which means that as of tomorrow, bookseller picks will be awarded two points for winning picks. Here's where we stand: Round #6 Swamplandia! by Karen Russell versus The Cat's Table … Continue reading Tournament of Books Catch Up
~Post by Joe T. If you’re anything like me and my many coworkers, you have become completely bewitched by the BBC/PBS television show, Downton Abbey. A kind of riff off the old seventies drama Upstairs, Downstairs, the show focuses on both the servants and the titled family that live at the estate from which the … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Downton Abbey Edition
We asked Stephanya, one of the leaders of our This Is Your Life Book Club which meets monthly to discuss rock bios, history books, and anything to do with the rise and realm of rock 'n roll, for her list of the best music-related books she's read in the last year. Here's what Stephanya has … Continue reading Recommended Reading: SXSW Edition
Book: When the Killing's Done by T. C. Boyle Reviewed by: Liz Wyckoff When I was a teenager, I killed a squirrel and watched it come back to life. I remember it clearly: the little guy prancing determinedly into my slow-moving car’s path, the enormous crabapple held gleefully in its mouth, my view in the … Continue reading Book Review: ‘When the Killing’s Done’ by T. C. Boyle
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