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Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too! by Robert Ben Garant & Thomas Lennon ~post by Steve(n) Casablanca; Lawrence of Arabia; Annie Hall; The Pacifier with Vin Diesel. One of these movies doesn't belong. That's because one of these movies made oodles … Continue reading WRITING MOVIES FOR FUN AND PROFIT: A Guaranteed Money Factory
This month our booksellers are cooking up a seven course feast to highlight the many new cookbooks hitting our shelves in time for the holidays. Join us as we chronicle our ambitious culinary undertakings here on the BookPeople blog. From cocktails to side dishes to dessert, we’ll share our adventures investigating a wide variety of new cookbooks, all … Continue reading BookPeople Feast: Tomato & Pomegranate Salad
This month our booksellers are cooking up a seven course feast to highlight the many new cookbooks hitting our shelves in time for the holidays. Join us as we chronicle our ambitious culinary undertakings here on the BookPeople blog. From cocktails to side dishes to dessert, we'll share our adventures investigating a wide variety of new cookbooks, all … Continue reading BookPeople Feast: Cocktails & Such
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno ~reviewed by Katie P. Green Girl is a novel that collapses boundaries. Kate Zambreno, who first published this book in 2011 before it became a cult favorite and was re-published by Harper Perennial this year, addresses her heroine and her audience directly, between long stretches of narration. Chapters, such as … Continue reading GREEN GIRL: Subversive and Poetic
The Peripheral by William Gibson Reviewed by Sarah H. William Gibson's work has never been easy. While his narratives are completely accessible, their concepts often reach into territory that is not widely understood. As popular as he is among the sci fi community, his stories are decidedly not mainstream. He works in subcultures, his main characters frequently … Continue reading THE PERIPHERAL: Elegant & Imaginative
The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec, translated by Willard Wood Reviewed by Jan The Goddess of Small Victories, a debut novel by French novelist Yannick Grannec, fictionalizes the career of brilliant real-life mathematician, logician, and philosopher, Kurt Gödel. Gödel made an immense impact in philosophical and mathematical thinking of the 20th century, through … Continue reading The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec: A Story of Boundless Love and Suffering
Malice: A Mystery by Keigo Higashino The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino ~review by Raul M. Chapa The rarest and most precious of mysteries are, in my opinion, the ones that twist the facts, make you scratch your head, and totally astound you when you finally … Continue reading Mind Blowing Mysteries from Japan!
Lila by Marilynne Robinson Reviewed by Katie Presley Marilynne Robinson is one of the most careful writers working today, in the purest sense of the word: there is more care put into every syllable of a Marilynne Robinson novel than in many shelves put together. Her publishing history and subsequent awards prove the point. Her … Continue reading New From Marilynne Robinson, On “The Wildness of Things”
Merritt Tierce's debut novel, Love Me Back, hit our booksellers hard. The story of Marie, a waitress at an upscale restaurant in Dallas, is told in cutting scenes of sex and drug abuse juxtaposed against crystalline descriptions of Marie's love for her daughter. This novel is rough and unapologetic, full of powerful sentences that tear through … Continue reading Praise For A Bold New Texas Writer
A copy of Rebel Yell, the new biography of Stonewall Jackson by S. C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon, has been making the bookseller rounds. Joe's been raving about it: "Stonewall Jackson was a 20th century general in 19th century clothing; a deeply religious man who hated war yet only came alive … Continue reading REBEL YELL: One of the Best Books of 2014
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