Big Hat Books & Arts

11/13/2013

Much as I love Hoosier humility, PLEASE let's brag a bit about our own Susan Crandall - Author and, VOTE! Her heart and soul moving novel Whistling Past the Graveyard from Simon & Schuster has been chosen as a semi-finalist (top 20 out of 13,000 major releases) for Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book award decided by readers. Voting ends in about 48 hrs! Check out the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, NY Times Best Seller, etc. company Susan is holding her own with. This is BIG, make a difference, vote NOW! (Promise the books angels will shine on you.)

Discover the Best Historical Fiction in the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book awards decided by readers.

11/06/2013

“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.”
― Rebecca Solnit

Wonder why I love books? Reading Rebecca Solnit's "The Faraway Nearby" and loving every word!

In “The Faraway Nearby” (which takes its title from a painting by Georgia O’Keefe), Rebecca Solnit examines how we escape through stories, why we tell them, and the role of empathy in storytelling. Throughout this consoling and inspiring book, Solnit reflects on how storytelling shapes relationships...

10/24/2013

Indianapolis Star Music Reporter Dave Lindquist shares insights on Indy's music scene over the past 15 years.

10/24/2013

Fall break kid fun! Read story on awesome local author Jeff Stone , meet him 6pm http://t.co/POelv49atD

10/20/2013

Midwest’s premier event for businesswomen and entrepreneurs offers education, inspiration and community INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. ...

10/19/2013

Cheers better be heard around the world tomorrow when Peyton Manning walks on to the field at Lucas Oil Stadium. Peyton and Brad Stevens gave me my Hoosier pride. Eli Manning makes me proud to be a native New Yorker. Mike Lupica's "QB1" was inspired by Archie Manning's amazing family - make sure your teens read it!

If you were a high school quarterback, a Texas high school quarterback, this was the moment you imagined for yourself from the first time somebody said you had some arm on you. This was football now, pure football, the way you drew it up, but not in some playbook.

10/17/2013

Poetry, Women, and W**e - How can you say no?! Please join us for a toast or two, a delightful reading, followed by a book signing of "The Company of Women."

Don't think about it, just come and celebrate Mary Sexson, Lylanne Musselman, and Jayne Marek. There can't be anything better to do, or so I thought when I forgot the 25th is also my husband's birthday...we best get festive!

10/15/2013

Dare a 9-13 yr old to read the first page of a Jeff Stone book https://www.facebook.com/readjeffstone?fref=ts and you will have a reader. The award-winning author of The Five Ancestors series from Random House Children's Books, ratchets up the adventure and delivers a winner in "Lion", the second book in "The Five Ancestors: Out of the Ashes" trilogy.

Set in Indiana, biking is the scene - I say with a heart stop remembering my old friend Steve Tesich's perfect screenplay for the movie "Breaking Away". Stone, like Tesich, knows friends and family are everything, history is the key to the future, and a ripping story relies on competition, mystery, and a world outside our four walls.

Please be sure to join us Thursday, October 24th at 6pm.

Jeff Stone delivers an action-packed adventure perfect for bike racing fans, readers of the popular Five Ancestors series, and anyone who loves a fast-paced page-turner. Ryan Vanderhausen is psyched. After his mountain biking disaster, he discovers that his size and strength make him a natural for r...

09/12/2013

If you haven't read your The Indianapolis Star today, get to it already and let's hear how much you love rock star of letters Jeffrey Eugenides! You too can have an up close and personal if you show up at Butler University Monday, Sept. 16th @ 7:30pm.

Jeffrey Eugenides is a gentleman.

09/05/2013