New online lit mag! New online lit mag! New online lit mag! Midnight Breakfast. New short fiction from Sara Novic in Guernica. From the vault: "The Dinner Party", a short story by Joshua Ferris published in The New Yorker in 2008. (Ben's about to begin Ferris's upcoming novel, To Rise Again At a Decent Hour, and wanted to warm up. Shameless plug: Ferris … Continue reading Weekend Reading
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Book World Buzz
YA Gotta Hear This: Big news! The Austin Teen Book Festival is now the Texas Teen Book Festival. ATBF has partnered with the Texas Book Festival and St. Edward's University. We're thrilled as ever to be a part of this awesome annual event and very excited for the new partnerships! The Texas Teen Book Festival is … Continue reading Book World Buzz
Teen Thursday
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! (On Friday... Sometimes We Get a Bit Busy...) Where we bring you highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corp! _______________________________________________________________________ Books That Ask the Big Questions In spirit of our January Buzz Book, This Star Won’t Go Out by Esther Grace Earl, the Teen Press Corps would like to … Continue reading Teen Thursday
Cover to Reel: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
~post by Katie G. Cover to Reel is a regular column in which I offer my two cents about that age-old debate about whether or not a movie did any kind of justice to the book it's based on. Blue is the Warmest Color (or, La Vie d'Adele - Chapitres 1 & 2) on DVD … Continue reading Cover to Reel: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
Top Shelf: THE ENCHANTED by Rene Denfeld
Top Shelf in March: The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld Reviewed by Jessica, Gifts Inventory Manager & Book Evangelist I consider books my religion. Rene Denfeld’s The Enchanted is an awakening, a spiritual cleansing. This is a piece of work so bold, beautiful and dark that it will wrap its maw right around your heart. I … Continue reading Top Shelf: THE ENCHANTED by Rene Denfeld
Welcome Back, Cotter: An Evening with Bill & PARALLEL APARTMENTS
We had an exceedingly good time last night with Bill Cotter and The Grown Up Lady Story Company as we celebrated the release of Cotter's new novel, The Parallel Apartments. Bill was a bookseller here at BookPeople many moons ago, serving his time as a first floor Inventory Manager. So ingrained is his work ethic that he served … Continue reading Welcome Back, Cotter: An Evening with Bill & PARALLEL APARTMENTS
What We’re Reading This Week
~ SALVADOR Night Film by Marisha Pessl “I’m only a few pages in, and this book is so creepy and spooky that I don’t want to turn the lights out after I put it down. It’s really fantastic at this point. It hooks book fans in this interesting way with all these interactive elements. Right … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
A Tribute to Kate DiCamillo
~post by Ellen For the next month, there is a display in our Children's section, BookKids, devoted to author Kate DiCamillo. Why, you may ask, would we want to have a display devoted to Kate DiCamillo? The answer is simple: because she is a great writer and her stories speak to us as humans. Everyone … Continue reading A Tribute to Kate DiCamillo
BookPeople Q&A with Nicholas Grider: MISADVENTURE
Nicholas Grider is an artist and writer with an MFA in both from CalArts. Misadventure is his debut collection of short stories, published by Austin small press A Strange Object. Unflinching and raw, these stories will grab you by the shoulders and sit you down until you've read every single one. Ben, of our booksellers, … Continue reading BookPeople Q&A with Nicholas Grider: MISADVENTURE
New Releases – 2/25/14
FICTION The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan "I just finished The Spinning Heart and I thought it was excellent. It does what all great fiction does - tell a specific story to explore what's universal. Each character has a distinct voice and what I found most interesting is how each perceives themselves and one another. … Continue reading New Releases – 2/25/14
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