Bedside Manner: Tales From the Commute

What's crowning Jay Trachtenberg's bedside table

"...relaxing it is to lose myself in a good novel for the ride home. As a result my reading..."

Nov. 1, 2010 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

Crawling at Night: A Novel

"...Crawling at NightA Novel..."

April 27, 2001 Books Review by Barry Johnson

Knick Knack Paddy Whack: A Novel

"...Knick Knack Paddy Whack: A Novelby Ardal O'Hanlon..."

March 31, 2000 Books Review by Bob Pomeroy

Foodie Fiction

"...between books of recipes surrounded by personal stories and novels laced with recipes seems to be getting shorter every..."

June 13, 1997 Food Feature

How Becoming a Book Saved The Dead Friends Society

Austin filmmakers Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall turn the page on a new career as horror novelists

"...Gandersman and Peter Hall, you turn it into your debut novel, which is how their long-gestating first feature, The..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Many Worlds of Author Marshall Ryan Maresca

The Austin-based maestro of Maradaine writes and sells at a steady and impressive pace

"...Marshall Ryan Maresca's debut novel, The Thorn of Dentonhill, came out from DAW..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Greg Hrbek Gets Incendiary at Malvern Books

Award-winning author presents a bomb-ravaged USA this weekend

"...time is Greg Hrbek, New York-based author of the novel Not on Fire, but Burning, published by Melville House...."

Jan. 25, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Steam Versus Cyber at ArmadilloCon

Bruce Sterling joins this weekend's sci-fi/fantasy literary event

"...hottest writers in science fiction right now. His first novel, The Windup Girl, last year won the Hugo and..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Torch

Cheryl Strayed's debut novel, while addressing autobiographical themes, performs the old-fashioned magic of fiction – it builds a town, fills it with people, reveals their hearts and minds, lets loose upon them the forces of death and lust – and sees what happens

"...still moving, slamming hard from feeling into language. Her debut novel, while addressing autobiographical themes, performs the old-fashioned magic..."

May 19, 2006 Books Review by Marion Winik

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood will get back to the restaurant news and advisories next week; for now, she just has to tell you about Timothy Taylor's debut novel, which has quite the culinary theme its own self.

"...for this week, here's a review of a new novel with a culinary theme that I read over the..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold, who will be at BookPeople on Monday, Aug. 12, has received serious accolades for The Lovely Bones. But Amanda Eyre Ward writes "whether you're willing to listen to a narrator who is telling her story from heaven will determine how quickly you fall into that story."

"...It's a frightening thing to begin a novel that has been universally hailed as a "triumph" (Time)..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Books Review by Amanda Eyre Ward

Summer Reading

"...Searcy's debut novel is a masterpiece of quiet, reflective horror. It's..."

July 27, 2001 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Observatory Mansions: A Novel

"...Observatory MansionsA Novel..."

April 6, 2001 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Rides of the Midway: A Novel

"...Rides of the MidwayA Novel..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Readings From the Fringe

"...new tricks after having established himself as a thoroughbred novelist with his captivating Easy Rawlins mystery series. He beguiled..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Books Review by Mike Shea

I Used To Go Here

Delayed coming-of-age comedy still has some maturing to do

"...to look like.” When the book tour for her debut novel is canceled, she jumps at the opportunity to..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Shalavé Cawley

Music on the Page at the Texas Book Festival

Music books strut their feminism, hip-hop, and emo

"...illustrated mental map opens music critic Jessica Hopper's new novel Night Moves. The patch of Chicago geography, like the..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

But Take Great Care, for Maybe She’s a Sort of Basilisk

Author Ottessa Moshfegh at BookPeople on Tuesday night

"...Probably shouldn’t judge Moshfegh’s new book – her debut collection of short stories, Homesick for Another World –..."

Jan. 30, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Man Called Ove

A grumpy old man finds his heart

"...Called Ove, which is based on the wry 2012 debut novel by Swedish blogger Fredrick Backman. In the tradition..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Before Sunset

Linklater summons up an affair to remember.

"...the present when Jesse gives a reading of his debut novel (based on the story of their Vienna night..."

July 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Density of Souls

"...mosquitoes than humans," 22-year-old Christopher Rice writes in his debut novel, A Density of Souls. It's a pointed observation,..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Books Review by Barry Johnson

Gift Guide for the Music Head on Your Holiday List

What a fan, finger drummer, or Austin nostalgia freak may want for Christmas

"...with Texas bands Hovvdy and Lomelda, Alex Peterson's Polyvinyl debut world-built with shades of noise, indie rock, and shoegaze...."

Dec. 3, 2021 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Texas Book Festival 2019: On Second Look: Writing About Home From New Perspectives

Oscar Cásares and De'Shawn Charles Winslow keep it all in the family

"...Texas writer Oscar Cásares (Where We Come From) and debut novelist De’Shawn Charles Winslow (In West Mills) discussed that..."

Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Joe O'Connell

Celeste Ng Loves Independent Bookstores

The author of Little Fires Everywhere helps us prep for Independent Bookstore Day

"...course she does, or she wouldn't have had a debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, that spent 46..."

April 27, 2018 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Richard Linklater on His New Film Last Flag Flying

Cranston, Carell, and Fishburne star in the director’s most mature film to date

"...Hal Ashby's Oscar-nominated comedy-drama was based on the 1970 debut novel by Darryl Ponicsan, about two experienced sailors (Jack..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lit-urday: Burning Down George Orwell's House

Whisky? Check. Women? Check. Weather? Check. Werewolf? Uh oh.

"...the copious imbibing of same in this darkly funny debut novel from Andrew Ervin...."

April 4, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Joe Lansdale, His Ownself, at Bookpeople

Joe Lansdale at Book People Thurs, April 5

"...Lucky us, Lansdale's got a new novel out, Edge of Dark Water (Little, Brown and Company)..."

April 3, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

Bedside Manner: Vampire vs. Zombie

That is the eternal question, is it not?

"...big fan of Whitehead even since reading his stunning debut novel, The Intuitionist, a riveting metaphor on race in..."

Nov. 14, 2011 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

A Little Night Magic

Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus

"...Considering her debut novel's title – The Night Circus – one assumes..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival

First look at the TBF lineup

"...Big fiction draws include Amy Waldman, whose debut novel, The Submission, has garnered raves; Booker Prize winner..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

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