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Earlier this year, bestselling author Sherman Alexie issued a call to arms to authors nationwide: show your support of your local independent bookstore by volunteering to work! And thus was born Indies First. On Saturday, November 30 (also known as Small Business Saturday), a team of Austin authors will put on BookPeople lanyards and test their … Continue reading Indies First!
F I C T I O N The Good Lord Bird by James McBride ______________________________________________ N O N F I C T I O N The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer ______________________________________________ P O E T R Y Incarnadine by Mary Szybist ______________________________________________ Y O U N G … Continue reading 2013 National Book Award Winners
Last Sunday we had the terrific pleasure of welcoming Jack Gantos to the store. What a guy! Gantos is full of stories and it was a pleasure to hear him discuss a wide variety of topics, from his childhood to his writing process (he typically works through one hundred drafts of a novel) to his latest … Continue reading Jack Gantos Recommends
We were honored and surprised to unlock the front doors this morning and find none other than Acclaimed Anchorman and Literary Legend Ron Burgundy waiting for us. How'd he get in here? And how did he survive the night on only one bottle of scotch and a wheel of cheese? These are mysteries we'd rather … Continue reading Ron Burgundy Visits BookPeople
The other day Steve B. dug into his archives and unearthed a copy of the Austin American-Statesman printed on November 22, 1963. This edition went to press "just minutes before the tragic news came from Dallas" of President Kennedy's death. The upper right hand corner indicates that this is the "Home Edition", which came out in … Continue reading November 22, 1963 in the Austin American-Statesman
~post by Steven There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as Stephen King's bibliography and as timeless as Edgar Allan Poe's scary bird thing. It is the middle ground between a noble literary endeavor and a complete waste of time – between science and … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club Trips the Light Fantastic about LAST DAYS
Let Me Off at the Top: My Classy Life & Other Musings, the riveting new memoir from Anchorman and Literary Legend Ron Burgundy, hits our shelves in a storm of mahogany-scented wonder this Tuesday, November 19. In the most highly anticipated book of the year, Burgundy reveals his most private thoughts, his triumphs and his disappointments. … Continue reading BREAKING: A (Not At All) Exclusive Q&A with Anchorman & Literary Legend Ron Burgundy
~ ANDREW B Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff "I'm liking this book a lot. I think David Rakoff's new book is short, sweet, funny, poignant and sad. This book will make you weep. The rhymes and storytelling in this book are just masterful and amazing. It's reading very quick, and I'm … Continue reading What We’re Reading
~Q&A by Scott M. For more crime fiction, visit the MysteryPeople blog. If you read Chris F. Holm's Collector series, you know he is one of the most talented writers out there. His latest featuring Sam Thorton, a soul collector for Hell, The Big Reap, has him going up against several former collectors who have … Continue reading MysteryPeople Q&A with Chris F. Holm: THE BIG REAP
_____________________________________________ HARDCOVER FICTION Hild by Nicola Griffith A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild. Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early Middle Ages—all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith’s luminous prose. … Continue reading New Releases – 11/12
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