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BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for our monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, we get together to select one book you absolutely must not miss. The Statesman Selects pick for April is James Hannaham’s new novel, Delicious Foods. Check out the Statesman’s review of the novel and join us here at BookPeople … Continue reading Statesman Selects April 2015: DELICIOUS FOODS
Demi is the BookKids Marketing & Merchandising Manager, which is a lot of M’s. She just got a puppy named Beatrice, who has chewed the corners of all Demi’s books to cement her place in a reading family. I moved to Austin (and started work at BookPeople) about eight months ago, at the end of … Continue reading Demi Reads The West
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes: Stories by Per Petterson ~post by Ben I came to Per Petterson’s Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes not long after having read Nguyen Nhat Anh’s Ticket to Childhood (which I recommend strongly). Both approach childhood and, due to the temporal proximity with which … Continue reading Book Review: Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes: Stories
In Turpentine, Alia Volz recounts her childhood with an artist mother. It is a short, beautiful story centered around the scent of the turpentine her mother used while painting. "When the muse is gorged and satisfied, it will abandon her body like a used rubber glove, leaving her saggy and deflated, a formless, useless biohazard. My mom … Continue reading weekend reading
Ocean Songs, by Ethan Rutherford is likely my favorite thing from Covered with Fur so far. The language is startlingly beautiful and highly Melville-esque. I mean, the first chapter is: "Before we were swimmers we were men. In the Morning and cramped it were our hunger that turned, and before us the Quaker laid the sea and … Continue reading weekend reading
HARDCOVER FICTION The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday Poxl West is the epitome of manhood and something of an idol to his teenage nephew, Eli Goldstein, who reveres him as a brave, singular, Jewish war hero. Poxl fills Eli's head with electric accounts of his derring-do, adventures and romances, as he collects … Continue reading New Books! 3/17/2015
Tonight is the night that The Nightmare Factory Book Club dons our black robes, straps on our sacrificial knives, and gathers together in the BookPeople cafe to celebrate the unholy ritual of discussing Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. To prepare ourselves, The Nightmare Factory has scoured the non-euclidean corners of the internet and found … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory’s Missing Links for March 2015
BookPeople is thrilled to host nearly staff-run a dozen book clubs every month. All but one of the clubs meets right here in the store. Following are this week's discussions. We hope you find one that fits your favorite genre! All BookPeople book club meetings are free and open to the public. Book club picks are 10% … Continue reading Book Club Meeting Round-Up for Week 3/15/15
HARDCOVER FICTION Barefoot Dogs: Stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho Book Release Event 3/10/15 “What people lose defines how they live their lives and this vibrant collection of stories illustrates this point with a literary verve that is electrifying! When the patriarch of a rich and thriving Mexican family is kidnapped, the family scatters across the world … Continue reading New Books! 3/10/2015
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera Reviewed by Ben Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera is nine chapters of slim and transgressive fiction. Shortlisted for the Romulo Gallegos Prize and translated into seven languages, Signs is a timely publication here in the United States. Migration and immigration, … Continue reading Book Review: SIGNS PRECEDING THE END OF THE WORLD
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