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If you've been following along here on the blog, then you've read some of the bookseller break-up stories we've shared in the spirit of Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman's new Why We Broke Up Project. Inspired by their new novel (written by Handler, illustrated by Kalman) Why We Broke Up, the project offers a space … Continue reading Austinites, Vent Your Hearts Out
Here are a few new books that have caught our eye recently. We send out a monthly email with recommended new titles. If you dig it, you can sign up for it here. The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his … Continue reading New & Noteworthy
Books! Brand new, hot off the presses and on the shelves today (blurbs, as usual, provided by the books' publishers): HARDCOVER FICTION The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children’s speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into … Continue reading New Releases
Book: The Ruins of Us by Keija Parssinen Reviewed by: Jessica Keija Parssinen’s first novel, The Ruins of Us, is a story about a family’s fall from harmony into discord set in Saudi Arabia. Born in Saudi Arabia and having lived there for twelve years as a third generation expatriate, Parssinen's writing brings the intensity … Continue reading Book Review: ‘The Ruins of Us’ by Keija Parssinen
Post by Justine Goldberg of WriteByNight, a writing center here in Austin. If you’re anything like the rest of us—in other words, human—chances are you’ve made at least a few New Year’s resolutions to amp up your literary productivity in 2012. Maybe you want to read more, or more widely. Maybe you’ve promised yourself to … Continue reading How to Kick 2012’s Butt, Literary Style
Book: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus Reviewed by: Matthew It's a familiar story: the postmodern dysfunctional family that, for one reason or another, seems only glued together by an angsty teenager who wants almost nothing to do with her father (who has been so repeatedly scorned by his daughter, he has come to the … Continue reading Book Review: ‘The Flame Alphabet’ by Ben Marcus
Tonight at 7p Heather Donahue, star of The Blair Witch Project, will be here with her new memoir about ditching Hollywood life to become a marijuana grower (and find a new inner peace along the way), Growgirl. She talked to The View yesterday about her experience, and you can catch her here in person tonight … Continue reading From the City That Brought You Dazed and Confused….
Inspired by the new book by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman, we present bookseller break up stories..... You broke up with me, but since I hadn't realized we were going out, I wasn't particularly crushed. For some reason, you only discovered that you were actually in love with me after I broke up with you. … Continue reading Why We Broke Up
McDonald's is giving away 9 million copies of War Horse in Happy Meals. Deborah Harnkess' novel Discovery of Witches is being adapted for the big screen by Warner Bros. (Our second floor Inventory Manager, Joe T., just picked up this book on a whim and devoured it in a little over a day. We had … Continue reading Items of Interest on the Internet Today
Five hours shy of the witching hour (7pm) on January 17th at BookPeople, a sinister faction of horror epicureans will meet in the dark recesses of the third floor to celebrate all things corrupted and weird with a roundtable discussion of Fritz Leiber's spooky masterwork, Conjure Wife. With a premise so unwholesome that it tingles … Continue reading Coven of Literary Horror Aficionados To Meet, Talk Books
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