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We're honored to join KUT and Front Porch Austin in presenting a conversation and book-signing with NPR superstar, Krista Tippett, host of the award-winning radio program On Being. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to share airspace with a living legend! The conversation will be moderated by legendary Austin newswoman, Judy Maggio. A reception will follow … Continue reading On Being’s KRISTA TIPPETT Comes to Austin!
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for our monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, BookPeople will highlight the Statesman’s top recommended read for Austin. We're excited to announce October's pick is Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh. Come down to the store Thursday, October 15th at 7pm when … Continue reading Statesman Select for October 2015: DON’T SUCK, DON’T DIE
The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia by David Stuart MacLean Reviewed by Steve(n) If every new experience is a bead on a bracelet, then memory is the string that unites these events into the coherent chain of a human life. David Stuart MacLean had the uncanny and horrifying misfortune of having … Continue reading The Delicate String of Memory: THE ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE IS ME
Ties That Bind: Stories of Love & Gratitude From the First Ten Years of StoryCorps by Dave Isay Reviewed by Katie G. I love listening to people's real life stories, so StoryCorps has been on my radar for a long long while (along with so many of the other fine programs on NPR. This American … Continue reading Ties That Bind (and Make You Cry)
"Saunders' short stories have it all — the flexibility of language, the social criticism, the moral ambition, the entertaining dark humor. Check back with me at the end of 2013; if his collection isn't in this year's top 10, it will really have been an extraordinary year for books." -NPR's Maureen Corrigan promises that George … Continue reading George Saunders Live Up to the Hype
Sonia Sotomayor SlideshowNPR has a fantastic slideshow of photographs of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor growing up. Her new book, My Beloved World, hits shelves tomorrow. Sotomayor speaks about & signs copies of her book here Wednesday, January 23 at 6:30pm.
The always reliable lit critics at NPR have unveiled a new feature, What We're Reading, which reviews new fiction and non-fiction that they find particularly interesting or notable.
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