Upcoming Author, Book & Literary Events in Georgia--Updated September 8th

If you just didn't get enough of a book fix last weekend at the Decatur Book Festival, the following list contains some additional--most, I hope--author events, signings, readings, festivals, etc. that are upcoming in Georgia.

Monday, September 8th

Hanif Kureishi
Something to Tell You
7 pm @ the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory UniversityPresented by A Capella Books in Atlanta

Wednesday, September 10th

Anne Rivers Siddons
Off Season
7 pm at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta

R. A. & Geno Salvatore
The Stowaway
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur

Kevin Cantwell & Seaborn Jones, Poets
8:15 at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
404.872.5338 for information.

Thursday, September 11th

Dr. Nell Rogers
Beyond Best
7:30 pm at Charis Books and More in Atlanta

Ian McNulty
A Season of Night
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur.

Friday, September 12th

New South Reading Series
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur
Sponsor: New South’s Writing Workshop at Georgia State University.

Stephane Dunn
Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films
8 pm at Charis Books and More in Atlanta.

Saturday, September 13th

Angela Benson
Up Pops the Devil
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.

Mary Monroe
She Had it Coming
Barnes & Noble at Camp Creek, East Point
404.349.0359 for information.

Linda Robertson
What Rhymes with Bastard
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur.

Sunday, September 14th

Linda Robertson
What Rhymes with Bastard?
2 pmA Cappella Books & the Opal Gallery in Atlanta.

Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
Writing Seminar, Atlanta
Visit www.hollisgillespie.com for more information.

Monday, September 15th

Helene Cooper
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
Decatur Public LibrarySponsor: Georgia Center for the Book.

Tuesday, September 16th

Charles Martin
Where the River Ends
7 pm at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta.

Wednesday, September 17th

Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
6:30 pm at the Book Exchange in Marietta.

Thursday, September 18th

Thomas Frank
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur.

Dionne Warwick
Say A Little Prayer
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta.

David Williams
Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War
A Cappella Books & the Opal Gallery in Atlanta
7 pm

Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
7 pm at the Blue Elephant Bookshop in Decatur.

Friday, September 19th

Michael Scott
The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.

Brad Meltzer
The Book of Lies
7:15 pm at the Georgia Center for the Book at the Decatur Public Library.

Monday, September 22nd

Rick Atkinson
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy
7:15 pm at the Decatur Library (Georgia Center for the Book).

Michael Gates Gill
How Starbucks Saved My Life
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur.

Tuesday, September 23rd

Stuart Woods
Hot Mahogany
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.

Wednesday, September 24th

Stuart Woods
Hot Mahogany
7:15 pm at the Georgia Center for the Book/Decatur Public Library.

Thursday, September 25th

RM Johnson
The Million Dollar Deception
7 pm at Barnes & Noble at Camp Creek, East Point
404.349.0359 for information.

Sonya Huber (Georgia Southern University Creative Writing Professor—GO EAGLES!)
Opa Nobody
7:30 pm at Charis Books and More in Atlanta.

Friday, September 26th

Garrison Keillor
Liberty
The Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta.

Reverend Candace Chellew-Hodge
Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide to Gays and Lesbian Christians
8 pm at Charis Books and More in Atlanta.

Sunday, September 28th

Linda Villarosa
Passing for Black
6 pm at Charis Books and More in Atlanta.

Monday, September 29th

Bob Schieffer
Bob Scheiffer’s America
Presented by A Cappella Books in Atlanta7 pm at the Day Chapel of the Carter Center in Atlanta.

Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Presented with A Cappella Books in Atlanta
7:15 pm at the Georgia Center for the Book at the Decatur Library.

Tuesday, September 30th

Diane Wilson
Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus
Presented by A Cappella BooksTBA at the Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta, 470 Candler Park Drive.

Wednesday, October 1st

University of Georgia Faculty and Staff Author Reception
3:30-5:30 pm at the University of Georgia Bookstore, Athens
706-542-2251 for information.

Thursday, October 2nd

Dexter Filkins
The Forever War
Presented by A Cappella Books and the Georgia Center for the Book
TBA at the Decatur Public Library.

Friday, October 3rd-Saturday, October 4th

Book Fair on the Square in Marietta
Authors at the event will include Richard Grinker, Rachel Simon, Doug Crandell, Laura Flynn, and Katherine Noel. Kids events.
Sponsor: The Cobb County Community Service BoardVisit www.bookfaironthesquare.org for more info.

Saturday, October 4th

Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
7 pm at Borders Books in Athens.

Monday, October 6th

Candace Bushnell
One Fifth Avenue
TBA at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta.

Ken Silverstein
Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyist Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship
Presented by A Cappella Books
7 pm at the Presidential Library Auditorium of the Carter Center, Atlanta.

Tuesday, October 7th

Greg Melville
Greasy Rider
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur.

Wednesday, October 8th

Honor Moore
The Bishop’s Daughter
TBA at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta.

Dave Zirin
A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People and Play.
TBA

Karen Head & Collin Kelley
Poetry Reading8:15 pm at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
404.872.5338 for information.
Presented by A Cappella Books in Atlanta.

Thursday, October 9th

Darrell Huckaby
A Southerner Looks at All Fifty States
6 pm at the Tate Student Center, UGA, Athens
706-542-8199

Michael Largo
Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages
7 pm at A Cappella Books/The Opal Gallery in Atlanta.

Nancy Floyd
She’s Got a Gun
7 pm at Charis Books and More, Atlanta.

Saturday, October 11th

Collin Kelley (After the Poison) and Cecilia Woloch (Narcissus)
2 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur.

Steve Doocy
Tales From the Dad Side
7 pm at Books A Million, Atlanta.

Tuesday, October 14th

Dixie Divas (Julie Canon, J.L. Miles, Patricia Sprinkle, and Karin Gillespie) with special guest Haywood Smith.
The Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta.TBA

Wednesday, October 15th

Sandra Lee
Money Saving Meals
Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta.
TBA

Sandra Lee
Sandra Lee’s Sweet & Simple Bake Sale
2 pm at the Cook’s Warehouse in Decatur
Presented by Wordsmiths Books.

Thursday, October 16th

Paula Deen
Paula Deen’s My First Cookbook
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Savannah
912.353.7757 for information.

Friday, October 17th

Andrew Porter (The Theory of Light and Matter) and Peter Selgin (Drowning Lessons)
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur.

Saturday, October 18th

2nd Annual Gwinnett Reading Festival
Rick Bragg and Carmen Agra Deedy confirmed.
Lawrenceville
Sponsor: Gwinnett County Public Library.
www.gwinnettreadingfestival.org for information.

Judith Ortiz Cofer
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish
Gwinnett Reading Festival
www.gwinnettreadingfestival.org

John Hodgmann, author and contributor to ‘The Daily Show’
More Information Than You Require
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Buckhead, Atlanta.

Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
7 pm at Bound to be Read Books in Atlanta.

Monday, October 20th

Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
7 pm at Barnes & noble @Georgia Tech, Atlanta.

Maureen McCormick (formerly of The Brady Bunch!!)
7:30 pm at Outwrite Books in Atlanta.

Tuesday, October 21st

James Kuntsler
The Long Emergency
4 pm at the University of Georgia Chapel, Athens706-542-3966.

Judith Ortiz Cofer
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish
6 pm at the University of Georgia
www.ugapress.uga.edu for more information.

Thursday, October 23rd

Judith Ortiz Cofer
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish
Watkinsville Public Library
www.ugapress.uga.edu for information.

Rinku Sen and Fekkak Mamdouh
The Accidental American: Immigration in an Age of Globalization.
7:30 pm at Charis Books and More in Atlanta.

Saturday, October 25th

Georgia Literary Festival
8 am to 5 pm on the Campus of Bainbridge College
Including authors Jay Barbee, Michael P. White, Cathy Cox, Jack McDevitt, Claire Matturo, Frye Gaillard, Valerie Boyd, Bobby Dews, Janice Daugharty, James Kimbrell, Wynton C. Hall, Dana Wildsmith, Philip D. Beidler, Sonny Sammons, and Joyce Cauthen giving a one-woman performance as Caroline Miller, author of Lamb in His Bosom and Georgia’s first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1933.Sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book, the Georgia Humanities Council, the Decatur County-Gilbert H. Gragg Library and Bainbridge College. Call 229.248.2590 for information.

Whit Gibbons
Turtles of the Southeast
Georgia Museum of Natural History
Athens
www.ugapress.uga.edu for information.

Robert Morgan
Boone
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur.

Monday, October 27th

Sarah Vowell
The Woody Shipmates
7 pm at the Day Chapel of the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Presented by A Cappella Books.

Monday, October 27th-Thursday, October 30th

The Pulitzer Legacy in Georgia
Featuring Stephen Dunn, Natasha Trethewey, Hank Kalibanoff and Edward Larson.
At the Jekyll Island Club, Jekyll Island, Georgia
Contact the Georgia Review at 800.542.3481 for information.

Friday, November 7th

June Akers Seese
Whose Coffee is it?
7 pm at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
404.872.5338 for information.

Saturday, November 8th thru Saturday, November 22nd

The 17th Annual MJCCA Book Festival
Featuring Tony Curtis, Alan Alda, Annie Leibovitz, Amy Bloom, Martin Fletcher, Evan Handler, and Jeffrey Toobin among others.
www.atlatajcc.org or 678-812-4000 for more information.

Wednesday, November 12th

Stephen Bluestone
Poetry Reading
8:15 pm at Callanwolde Fine Aarts Center404.872.5338.

Saturday, November 15th

5th Annual Savannah Children’s Book Festival
Forsyth Park, SavannahVisit
www.liveoakpl.org

Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition—Winning Screenplays Presented
Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta
TBA.

Monday, November 17th

Jon Meacham
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
A Cappella Books presents
7 pm at the Carter Center Library and Museum Theater.

Micheal Wex
Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won’t Do)
7 pm at A Cappella Books in Atlanta.

Friday, November 21st

Roy Blount, Jr.
Alphabet Juice
Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta.
TBA.

Randy Owen (Lead singer from the group Alabama)
Born Country
7 pm at Borders Books in Buckhead, Atlanta.

Saturday, November 29th

Mike Huckabbee
Do the Right Thing
8 pm at Borders Books in Marietta.

Thursday, December 4th

Harry Potter: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling release.

Saturday, December 13th

Rachel Ray
Big Orange Cookbook
12 noon to 2 pm at Books A Million, Atlanta.

Friday, February 6th-Sunday, February 8th, 2009

2nd Annual Savannah Book Festival

NOTE: This list is by no means complete. Events may be added—or cancelled. Events may change. Please contact specific venues or organizations (see links on this website) to confirm event times, dates and details. Happy reading.