BookPeople Podcast

Marissa Meyer

March 13, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

Marissa Meyer's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx. ABOUT LUNAR CHRONICLES Celebrate the beloved, bestselling series with gorgeous, brand new covers in paperback! In Cinder, a teenage cyborg (half human, half machine) must deal with a wicked stepmother, start a rebellion against the evil Queen Levana, and decide how she feels about a handsome prince. Cinder forges alliances with Scarlet, a spaceship pilot; a magnetic street fighter named Wolf; Cress, a computer hacker who is ...

Teen Press Corps - Interview with Marissa Meyer

March 12, 2020 13:00 - 14 minutes - 13 MB

The BookPeople Teen Press Corps reads and reviews new and forthcoming YA books, interviews authors, covers YA events in Austin and keeps up on all the latest YA book and movie buzz. Their reporting appears on the BookPeople Teen Press Corps blog and in their monthly enewsletter.

Paul Yoon in Conversation with Laura Van Den Berg

March 06, 2020 03:39 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB

Paul Yoon's in-store event @ BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx ABOUT PAUL YOON Paul Yoon is the author of two story collections, Once the Shore, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and The Mountain, which was a NPR Best Book of the Year. His novel Snow Hunters won the Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars and the National Endowment for the Arts, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife...

Jenn Shapland

February 28, 2020 06:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MB

Jenn Shapland's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx Jenn Shapland's work won a 2017 Pushcart Prize and fellowships/residencies at Ucross, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Yaddo, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, and Vermont Studio Center. Her essays have been published in Tin House, THE Magazine, Pastelegram, The Lifted Brow, Electric Literature, NANOfiction, and The Millions. She teaches in the Creative Writing department at the Institute of American Indian Ar...

Isabel Ibanez, Adrienne Young, & Shea Ernshaw

February 21, 2020 06:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB

Authors: ISABEL IBAÑEZ, ADRIENNE YOUNG, SHEA ERNSHAW Live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx WOVEN IN MOONLIGHT Isabel Ibañez was born in Boca Raton, Florida, and is the proud daughter of two Bolivian immigrants. A true word nerd, she received her degree in creative writing and has been a Pitch Wars mentor for three years. Isabel is an avid movie goer and loves hosting family and friends around the dinner table. She currently lives in Winter Park, Florida, with her husband, their a...

Ransom Riggs

February 07, 2020 03:25 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MB

Ransom Riggs's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx Ransom Riggs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children novels. Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida. He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, bestselling author Tahereh Mafi, and their family.

Lori Gottlieb

January 31, 2020 03:19 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MB

Lori Gottlieb in conversation with Jenny Lawson @ BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times best-selling author who writes the Atlantic’s weekly Dear Therapist advice column. A contributing editor for the Atlantic, she also writes for the New York Times Magazine and appears as a frequent expert on mental health in media such as Today,Good Morning America,CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR. Learn more at LoriGottlieb.com or by following her @LoriGott...

Carolyn Cohagan

January 24, 2020 22:17 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MB

Carolyn Cohagan has an extensive theater background. She has performed stand-up and one-woman shows at festivals around the world from Adelaide to Edinburgh. Her first novel, The Lost Children (Simon & Schuster, 2010), became part of the Scholastic Book Club in 2011 and was nominated for the 2014 Massachusetts Children's Book Award. After two decades of living in New York and Los Angeles, she returned to her hometown of Austin, TX, to found the creative writing organization Girls With Pens, w...

Carylon Cohagan

January 24, 2020 22:17 - 50 minutes

Carolyn Cohagan has an extensive theater background. She has performed stand-up and one-woman shows at festivals around the world from Adelaide to Edinburgh. Her first novel, The Lost Children (Simon & Schuster, 2010), became part of the Scholastic Book Club in 2011 and was nominated for the 2014 Massachusetts Children's Book Award. After two decades of living in New York and Los Angeles, she returned to her hometown of Austin, TX, to found the creative writing organization Girls With Pens, w...

MysteryPeople - Watching the Detectives

January 17, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 86.5 MB

ABOUT WATCHING THE DETECTIVES Few characters are as iconic as the trenchcoat and fedora clad private eye, but a lot has changed since Sam Spade's day. Crime fiction coordinator Scott Montgomery leads a discussion of private detective fiction with a panel of authors, historians, and editors who include Matt Coyle, Tim Maleeny, Laura Oles, Tim Bryant, Billy Kring, and Jeff Vorzimmer.

Alyssa Banta

January 10, 2020 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB

Alyssa Banta's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx. Most people may think of ranchers and cowboys as men. But although they are under-chronicled, ranch women work from dark to dark, keeping step with hired hands, brothers, fathers and husbands. They blaze trails through unforgiving scrub. They cook supper and feed bulls. At any given time, they wear the hats-and the gloves-of geologist, veterinarian, lawyer and mechanic. They are fierce and feminine and powerful. Photojournalist...

Amy Edwards

January 03, 2020 06:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MB

Amy Edwards live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx. In conversation with Carolyn Cohagan Amy Edwards, 47, is a rock musician, radio personality, author, actress, accountability coach, and podcast host, as well as a mom to two girls. From her home in Austin, Texas, she is the co-author of the children’s book, Starla and the Boogie Deluxe (Archway, 2019). Amy’s platform is about rocking life to the fullest, and she believes strongly in helping others overcome their fears in order to...

André Aciman

November 15, 2019 06:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MB

André Aciman in conversation with Adeena Reitberger at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx. André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.

Ryan Holiday

November 08, 2019 13:16 - 48 minutes - 44 MB

Ryan Holiday's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx Ryan Holiday is one of the world's foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life. He is a sought-after speaker, strategist, and the author of many bestselling books including The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; and The Daily Stoic. His books have been translated into over 30 languages and read by over two million people worldwide. He lives outside Austin, Texas, with his family.

Bruce Cameron

November 01, 2019 05:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB

Bruce Cameron's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx W. BRUCE CAMERON is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose, A Dog's Way Home, and A Dog's Journey (all now major motion pictures), The Dog Master, the A Dog's Purpose Puppy Tales for young readers (starting with Ellie's Story and Bailey's Story), The Dogs of Christmas, The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man, and others. He lives in California.

Cory Allen

October 04, 2019 05:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MB

Cory Allen's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx. Through his popular podcast The Astral Hustle and online meditation course Release into Now, Cory Allen has helped thousands of people better cope with the stress of daily life through meditation, mindfulness, and mental clarity. With concise advice and profound simplicity, he manages to cut through the jargon and speak to people where they are, giving them the tools to live in “the wow of now.” In this accessible and supportive...

Lara Prescott

September 27, 2019 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

Lara Prescott in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken @ BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx. LARA PRESCOTT received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin. She was previously an animal protection advocate and a political campaign operative. Her stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, Day One, and Tin House Flash Fridays. She won the 2016 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for the first chapter of The Secrets We Kept. She live...

Caleb McDaniel

September 20, 2019 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MB

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time an...

MysteryPeople - Tough Guys and Dangerous Dames

September 13, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 99.6 MB

ABOUT TOUGH GUYS & DANGEROUS DAMES In honor of the 20th anniversary of Stark House Press, publisher of some of the pasts great crime fiction and it's release of The Best of Manhunt edited by Jeff Vorzimmer, we will be doing a discussion on hard boiled crime fiction, it's history and it's elements, with a great collection of historians, editors, and authors including Jeff, Rick Ollerman, Tim Bryant, Josh Stallings, and Joe R. Lansdale.

David Lagercrantz

September 06, 2019 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB

DAVID LAGERCRANTZ is an acclaimed Swedish author and journalist. In 2015 The Girl in the Spider's Web, his continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, became a worldwide best seller, and it was announced that Lagercrantz would write two further novels in the series. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye was published in September 2017. He is the coauthor of numerous biographies (including the internationally best-selling memoir I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović) and the acclaimed novel Fall of M...

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