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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
It's been a couple of months since we've checked in with you guys so we wanted to share our thoughts on our last few months of reading. Merrilee: In Febuary we read Listening is an Act of Love, edited by Dave Isay. I love reading about other peoples' lives, but sometimes a whole memoir is just … Continue reading Updates From The Stranger Than Fiction Book Club
The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth Reviewed by Raul It is uncanny how a writer can so easily create a work that revitalizes a genre and sends it in a new direction simultaneously leading the reader on a breathless chase after clues that reassert the book's place as a solid detective mystery. And this … Continue reading Book Review: The Devil’s Detective
Fearfully huddled together for the indefinable comfort of human contact in the middle of the haunted BookPeople coffee shop, the Nightmare Factory Book Club listened, quivering mostly with terror but a little from the indefinable thrill of human contact, as something powerful knocked over the bookshelves. The candelabras on the tables flickered and blew out … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Reads Shirley Jackson’s Classic The Haunting of Hill House
The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced in a ceremony at the New School in New York City last night. In addition to the winners in the six categories listed below, Toni Morrison received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and Phil Klay (here in the store tonight!) received the John Leonard Prize for Redeployment. Since 1974, National Book … Continue reading 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Tuesday night, at our standing-room-only launch event with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, we announced that Barefoot Dogs is our next Trust Fall pick! This debut collection of stories from Camacho, an Austin author, tells the story of a Mexican family from the different perspectives of its members. Booksellers Raul and Jim B. both read early copies of the book and … Continue reading Announcing Trust Fall #3: BAREFOOT DOGS
Love BookPeople? Love books? Come work with us! BookPeople is the largest independent bookstore in Texas. During our more than forty-year history, we have gained national recognition and become an iconic Austin destination. From our beginnings in 1970 as a small new age bookstore in West Campus called Grok Books to our current downtown location, … Continue reading We’re Hiring! Bookseller Positions Available
We're looking forward to being on hand once again for the decadent, delicious Austin Food & Wine Festival, happening out on Auditorium Shores the weekend of April 24-16, 2015. As AFWF's official bookseller, we stock the festival store with beautiful cookbooks by chefs appearing at the festival, some of whom will be signing after their demos. … Continue reading Weekender Passes Available for Austin Food & Wine Festival
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
~post Katie P. Nigel Barker is perhaps best known as a co-star of sorts; he often works in the presence of supermodels and designers, and is recognizable to many as the guy on TV sitting next to Tyra Banks or Naomi Campbell. And he is that guy; he was a judge on 17 seasons of … Continue reading Nigel Barker at BookPeople: “This is an unprecedented time for fashion.”
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