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Donna Tartt! Donna Tartt! The winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and we're thrilled to see Donna Tartt's wonderful novel The Goldfinch recognized with a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Check out all the winners here. Congratulations to Tartt and all the fine folks at Little Brown & Company who brought The Goldfinch into the … Continue reading Donna Tartt’s THE GOLDFINCH Wins Pulitzer Prize
Publishers Weekly reports that J. K. Rowling has announced she'll pen a second mystery under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. This follow-up to The Cuckoo's Calling will be titled The Silkworm and is due for publication here in the U.S. June 24, according to the book's publisher, Little Brown. Did you read The Cuckoo's Calling? Will you pick up The … Continue reading Rowling to Write New Galbraith Mystery
~Post by Claire Cameron, Author of The Bear: A Novel Getting lost in the wilderness is a scary idea: just you, the vast wilderness and…what if your cell phone doesn’t work? Even in our connected world, this still happens. To be human is to get lost. An environmental psychologist, Colin Ellard, in his book You … Continue reading How To Be Found: Guest Post by Claire Cameron
Last night we were fortunate to host one of the very, very few events author Doug Dorst is doing to promote his new novel, S. In addition to reading reviews of Ship of Theseus, the book-within-the book that comprises the body of S., and an excerpt of Theseus itself, he discussed the collaborative process that went into making S., … Continue reading An Evening with V. M. Straka. We Mean – Doug Dorst
If there's one book we've looked forward to this year, it's The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Many of us here treat Secret History as a sacred text. We're very excited to announce that The Goldfinch is the Statesman Selects pick for November. Pick up a copy of the Austin American-Statesman this Sunday to read their … Continue reading Statesman Selects: THE GOLDFINCH
~post by Julie Yesterday we received our first shipment of S., the new novel from J. J. Abrams and Austinite Doug Dorst. Today I actually opened up a copy. Holy pajamas. This is quite a book. So okay, let's start with looks, because the experience of reading this book has almost everything to do with … Continue reading S. Is Here. And It’s Completely Unexpected.
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Reviewed by Raul To this day, the story of Agnes Magnusdottir is known to Icelanders. Agnes is the last person executed in Iceland for murder. While there is no question as to her involvement in the killing, readers of Hannah Kent's new novel Burial Rites pick up that there may be … Continue reading BURIAL RITES: Poetic & Haunting
This week, to kick off our tremendous list of recommendations for everyone shopping for the holidays (or simply for a good book), we’re highlighting titles that we and independent booksellers across the country are particularly fond of (and there are quite a few selections, compiled neatly in this brilliant list, if you’d like to take … Continue reading Thanks for Shopping Indie!
And this: Also, this: And then this: What could it all mean? That once again, Lemony Snicket failed to appear at BookPeople, and instead we had to have a perfectly awful time with an accordion-playing Daniel Handler who read from Snicket's new book Who Could That Be at This Hour? And that there was a … Continue reading So This Happened on Saturday
Astray by Emma Donoghue Reviewed by Steven A life can be defined just as readily by its transitions as it can its discrete states of beings. We are all on our way to something, and the passage itself plays the most important role in the shaping of who we are, though that naturally changes instant-to-instant … Continue reading We Are All On Our Way to Something
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