Whether you’ve got kids or teens or if you are a fan of kidlit and YA, or if you are simply looking for fun, high octane events that will introduce you to new books and new authors, Brazos is the place to be this fall! Well, we’re always the place to be, but you know that!
Summer is over and the school year has begun! We asked our staff for their favorite BACK TO SCHOOL BOOK! Check them out here!
LYRIC'S PICK:CULTURE CLASS by Martha Rosler- Artist Martha Rosler looks critically at the intersections of art practice, labor, and capital in this influential essay collection from e-flux journal. This is essential reading for artists, thinkers, students, and anyone willing to engage thoughtfully with the world.
Brazos is proud to partner with Interfaith Ministries of Houston for a month long Book Drive in September!
Stop by anytime during the month of September and add a children's book to donate when you check out! You will receive 10% off your entire purchase when you buy a book to donate to the drive! All books will be given to Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston to distribute to refugee children and families in the Houston area.
When I first learned she'd passed away, I was on the phone with my father. We sighed together briefly, then moved on to matters that pressed on us more immediately, like bills, paychecks and dead car batteries. An hour later, I felt the news sink in more fully as social media posts, elegies and quotes began filling my digital space: surrounded by all of the little ways we make ourselves visible online through writing, I thought, I'll have to write something, because I am a Writer. I didn't feel up to the task. I felt too small.
To say that we collectively fell in rom-com love with Casey MicQuiston’s delightful, sexy, political romp, RED WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE, is to really say that we tumbled head first into obsessive happy adoration. So much so that it’s currently sitting as the centerpiece of our brand new romance display. So much so that we’ve become happy evangelists for the rom-com revival in all its new forms. We are, thus, quite delighted to feature an interview that Joy and Cassie did with Casey this week in our lead up to Saturday 8/17’s BOOKSTORE ROMANCE DAY.
Brazos is looking to the FUTURE...or at least to this fall! Here are our Staff Picks for Most Anticipated Titles for Fall 2019!
KEATON'S NON-FICTION PICK:BIG WONDERFUL THING: A HISTORY OF TEXASby Stephen Harrigan- This is it! A gigantic, single volume history of the Lone Star State years in the making and poised to be the standard for years to come. Filled with images and tales of legendary and obscure Texans throughout time, this is a must have to pore over again and again.
Back in 2015 I traveled to Mexico City for the first time, a city I had longed dreamed of visiting, mostly, I admit, for literary reasons. I was one of thousands of anglo readers that had been swept up in the frenzy of Roberto Bolaño and his incredible books that had begun getting translated and published in the early 2000’s. My introduction to Bolaño was, also like many, THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES, a colossal book about Bolaño’s youth amidst the poetry, politics and friendships of the 1970’s. It was also a book about place, and that place was Mexico City.
In preperation for our Summer of Walt Whitman Finale Party at the close of August, our events assistant Cassie went on a guided nature walk along the Bayou, led by Laura Conely of Urban Paths. Read about her nature walk here, and make plans to attend our upcoming nature walk!
The last days of summer are upon us! Probably a good time to take that roadtrip you've been talking about. Here are our Summer Staff Picks for BEST ROADTRIP READ! Happy adventuring!
LYRIC'S PICK:ELEANOR OR, THE REJECTION OF THE PROGRESS OF LOVE by Anna Moschovakis- Anna Moschovakis's protagonists are both restless in different ways, mirroring the constant movement of the car, bus, or plane you might find yourself in this summer!
Zahia Rahmani's "Muslim: A Novel" is at its core a warning of the danger and violence of distilling human life down to a single identity label: religion, gender, or nationality. It also warns against the violence of erasing any part of one's life that encompasses those identities and cultures: the colonized who are forced to stop speaking their language, or oppressed groups who are forced to assimilate into the dominant culture while their own cultural practices are demonized and marginalized. This is the tension of the novel, pulling between multivalent life and erasure.
