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John Krasinski (Jim from THE OFFICE) in Austin this weekend

Posted in BookPeople Events, Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

ohn Krasinski (better known as Jim Halpert on THE OFFICE) will be in Austin this weekend to promote his new movie and directorial debut, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. The movie is based on the book of short stories by influential and recently deceased author David Foster Wallace.

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Top Shelf for May 2009

Posted in staff reviews, tagged , , , , , , on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Part of me is tempted to sum up this book as: “What would happen if John Hodgman wrote a novel.” I don’t pay this book that complement just because it includes a chart of hobo signs and their meanings, although that did contribute. It’s mostly because [...]

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Woodsburner

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Woodsburner by John Pipkin
Before he moved into his cabin at Walden, before he published his most famous text, before he wrote that most of us “lead lives of quiet desperation,” Thoreau was a big fat nobody. In fact, he was even worse than a nobody.
Almost a year before he embarked on his Walden experiment, [...]

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American Rust

Posted in BookPeople Events, tagged , , , on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m always excited to feature writers with an Austin connection, and even more excited to feature writers with a Michener Center connection.  The Michener Center pulls together some amazing authors, and Austin is lucky to be home for these writers, at least for a little while.  But even better that an Austin author from the [...]

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