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Tickets for tomorrow afternoon’s event with President Jimmy Carter will be available via our website until 1pm today. After that, they’ll be available in-store only. For tickets and complete event guidelines, visit our website or give us a call: 512-472-5050. We’re very excited (and very busy today preparing) to welcome President Carter with a powerful, … Continue reading President Jimmy Carter Event Update
Publisher's Weekly talked to Ann Brashares (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) about her new YA novel, The Here and Now: PW: Can you describe what your writing day is like? AB: I tend to be either immersed in a book and writing a lot, or I’m not at all and I’m busy trying to find my way into … Continue reading PW Q&A with Ann Brashares
BookPeople is excited to announce we're hosting a special in-store event with bestselling author & Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington on Friday, April 11 at 3pm. Huffington will speak about and sign her new book, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. EVENT INFORMATION This event will take place at … Continue reading Arianna Huffington Comes to BookPeople!
HARDCOVER FICTION Stone Cold by C. J. Box Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out what the truth is about a mysterious man living on a massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming, but he discovers a lot more than … Continue reading New Releases – 3/11/14
One More Thing: Stories And Other Stories by B. J. Novak Reviewed by Steve(n) Tightrope-walking between the heartfelt and the absurd, the short fiction of BJ Novak balances high above saccharine whimsy, but, when it does take a deliberate tumble into irreverrent silliness, it climbs back into its native, rarefied air with a guilty, knowing grin … Continue reading Review: ONE MORE THING by B. J. Novak
SXSW Books! No, it's not a real thing, and no, we're not an official SXSW venue or anything like that. But we do happen to have a few awesome events happening during the madness and we'd love to see you here. All authors will speak about and sign their books at these events. The speaking … Continue reading SXSW at BookPeople
The incomparable Owen Egerton's first collection of short stories, How Best to Avoid Dying, is back in print with a fabulous new cover! Huzzah! The Chicago Tribune said of this collection, "...Egerton...applies a laser focus to our search for the sacred, with results that are both darker and more divine." Owen is a veritable staple in Austin's vibrant … Continue reading Author Talk: Q&A With Owen Egerton
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
By Blood We Live by Glen Duncan Reviewed by Steve(n) In his celebrated werewolf trilogy, Glen Duncan has inventively scrutinized the human experience from perspectives abstracted just enough to blur the lines between objective observation and subjective participation. Whereas The Last Werewolf was an existential examination of absolute power, moral compromise, and social isolation, and Talulla … Continue reading BY BLOOD WE LIVE: A Smart & Satisfying Culmination
Gary Shteyngart, king of the book trailer, the book blurb, and author of our some of our favorite modern novels, emigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1979, when he was seven years old. He recounts his journey from St. Petersburg to Queens to bestseller lists in his new memoir, Little Failure, the … Continue reading Statesman Selects: LITTLE FAILURE by Gary Shteyngart
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