Happy Halloween, book people!
In recognition of the season, here is a family story that I would like to share. Make of it what you will.
My grandfather grew up in the foothills of Alabama. One of his favorite stories that he liked to share with us kids during the Halloween season involved an event that occurred in the small town where he grew up in rural Alabama. The event occurred during the nineteen twenties, when he was just a boy himself, and took place sometime around late October.
There had been an early snow the night before. Granddad recalled that by the time he had gotten up to do his morning chores—early—there was already some talk going on with the neighbors about some queer animal tracks that people were noticing around town. He said that he didn’t have any idea as to what the commotion was about, until one of his neighbors, a farmer who lived just down the road from his house, came to fetch his own father to have a look at these tracks.
Granddad said that he saw the neighbor come up the road and head into the yard around in the front of the house. So, naturally, granddad said that he walked around front to say “hey”. His father, my great grandfather, was already standing in the yard, out in the snow, looking down at the ground, “studying somethin’”, as granddad put it.
“Well, I guess you found ‘em, too?” the neighbor said to great granddaddy. “What do you make of those?”
These were men who hunted on a regular basis, and knew the animals that inhabited the surrounding country quite well. And the tracks, at first, didn’t really strike a person as being all that odd.
The tracks that came into granddad’s yard looked like those of a small animal, maybe a deer. “They weren’t some Bigfoot tracks or that kind of foolishness,” granddad would always assure us.
Still, the tracks, which always seemed to be going in a straight line, and never backtracked over themselves, appeared to do some very strange things.
“Well, first of all, they came right up on the front porch. And whatever it was, it walked down the whole front of the house.” Granddad went on, “And what was really strange is that, once we started looking, we could see that whatever this thing was, it had walked in a circle all the way around the house. And the thing was, that the tracks would come right up to the house whenever they came to a window, like whatever it was might have been looking inside for something.”
Granddad went on to say that things took a real turn on the scary side when people all over town started to notice the tracks doing the same thing on their property. It wasn’t a big town by any means, but including the surrounding farms that more or less circled the town square, it was a relatively large area.
“Whatever it was, it sure was getting along in a hurry,” Granddad would add. “And it didn’t miss a single house.” The only place that no one recalled seeing any of the tracks was around the Baptist or Methodist churches. Granddad said that he’d heard his father laughing with several of the other men in town about the critter, whatever it was, not having any religion cause it hadn’t walked around in either of the church yards in town.
“Folks didn’t laugh long, though.” Granddad would always lead into the last part of his story with that line.
“NO, Sir. People started getting pretty scared when the whole picture started coming together.” He would go on, “The snow from the night before was pretty thick, so the tracks were pretty easy to see, especially once everybody got all excited about them.”
“Those track were everywhere. People found them where they would go right up to a ten foot haystack,” and then, after a loaded pause, “and they just kept right on going on the other side like whatever it was hadn’t even slowed down a lick.” He said that people swore that they’d even found the tracks on their roofs.
“Those tracks just kept on going, like whatever it was was just on some moonlit stroll and wasn’t going to be interrupted.”
The tracks had come into town from a deep woods on one end of town, and exited into the same at the other end of town after crossing through a large pasture. As the day wore on and the temperature began to go up, the melting snow began to create big gaps in the tracks and made them impossible to follow.
As we got older, Granddad would add the parts to the story that he had chosen not to tell us when we were younger. “I didn’t want to give you kids nightmares, or anything.”
He told us about how one of his neighbors, a man named Herschel, had set several coon dogs on the tracks. “They went off into the woods, in the direction that the tracks went away from town. Them dogs never did come back and Hershcel never did find no bodies, either.”
But I was in college when granddad finally gave me the final bit of detail about the mysterious tracks. I was home from school for the weekend, during fall semester. I asked him to tell me the story again. When he got to the end, he said, “Well, you heard all of that before.”
Then he got a slightly more serious look on his face. “You know what the real strange part about those tracks was?”
I asked him to tell me. He looked me square in the face, and raised his eyebrows.
“Well, they were just little hoof prints, like maybe a doe or even a goat. Some people even thought they looked a little like a pig, maybe a wild hog.”
He considered a moment, and gave what seemed just a tad bit like a shudder, before he finally finished the whole story.
“But that just didn’t make sense. You see, those tracks hadn’t been side by side, like an animal walking on all fours. Them tracks had been one right in front of the other. Whatever made them tracks that night walked upright. Like a man.”
Be Safe Trick-or-Treaters!
Recommended: Savannah Spectres and Other Strange Tales by Margaret Wayt DeBolt. Some of the best ghost stories from Savannah, America's most haunted city.
RMR Ghost Stories
Friday, October 31, 2008
Where do you get your books?
The joy that I experience in bookshops has nothing to do with their size. I like them all.
-Lawrence Clark Powell
Highly recommended: Patience & Fortitude by Nicholas A. Basbanes (and anything else by this book person's book person).
-Lawrence Clark Powell
Highly recommended: Patience & Fortitude by Nicholas A. Basbanes (and anything else by this book person's book person).
Monday, September 8, 2008
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.
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.
Friday, August 29, 2008
The 2008 Decatur Book Festival
The greatest book festival in the World begins today in downtown Decatur, Georgia. Seriously, at just three years of age, the Decatur Book Festival is officially FAMOUS. Two hundred and fifty plus authors will be in attendance (many from Georgia--many from Decatur). Some 50,000 to 75,000 people are expected to attend. So much to see, do, eat, read. See the Festival link at right for the entire phenomenal schedule...if you are not already there in Decatur.
As an avid promoter of the Georgia book world--and former Decaturite--it's hard not to gush. Having been in the book business for so long, I recall a time when Atlanta was spoken of as just, "not a book town".
See you there.
Suggested reading:
See full schedule of Decatur Book Festival authors for suggestions.
RMR
As an avid promoter of the Georgia book world--and former Decaturite--it's hard not to gush. Having been in the book business for so long, I recall a time when Atlanta was spoken of as just, "not a book town".
See you there.
Suggested reading:
See full schedule of Decatur Book Festival authors for suggestions.
RMR
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Natasha Tretheway & Karin Slaughter on the Same Bill
The Georgia Perimeter College Writer's Institute, in conjunction with the Atlanta Writer's Club, will present 2007 Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Natasha Tretheway and internationally acclaimed crime novelist Karin Slaughter (both Georgia authors) together at 1 pm, in Room C110 on the GPC Dunwoody Campus on Saturday, August 16th.
For more information about the Georgia Perimeter College Writer's Institute and its events, see the link on the right. For more information about the Atlanta Writer's Club, visit their site at www.atlantawritersclub.org.
Counting the days until the Decatur Book Festival.
Suggested reads:
Anything by Ms. Tretheway or Ms. Slaughter
RMR
For more information about the Georgia Perimeter College Writer's Institute and its events, see the link on the right. For more information about the Atlanta Writer's Club, visit their site at www.atlantawritersclub.org.
Counting the days until the Decatur Book Festival.
Suggested reads:
Anything by Ms. Tretheway or Ms. Slaughter
RMR
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The First Day of Kindergarten
Well, there she goes.
Yesterday was the first day of kindergarten for my house.
Didn't she just get here? Didn't she just learn to walk and wasn't she just in diapers? Now she says that she wants to dress up like one of the B-52s for Halloween.
I am looking at a book that was inscribed to her by author Terry Kay (To Whom the Angels Spoke) when she was barely a month old. She has books that were autographed for her by authors before she was even born. Now she is reading books.
She's reading.
Today was Day 2 of kindergarten and she marched right in to the school building like she owned the place.
Recommended Reads:
Nothing. Absolutely nothing helps.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Upcoming Author & Book Events in Georgia Updated August 5th, 2008
Upcoming Author & Book Events in Georgia
Thursday, August 7th
Sandy Jones
Great Expectations: Baby Gear
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Texas Governor Rick Perry
On My Honor
Borders Books in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.237.0707 for information.
Mark Baurlein
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
7:15 at the Decatur Public Library
Sponsors: Georgia Center for the Book & Wordsmiths Books
Friday, August 8th
Margaret Hoffman signing
7 pm at Barnes & Noble Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Laurinda Brown
The Highest Price for Passion
8 pm at Charis Books & More in Atlanta
404.524.0304
Friday, August 8th-Sunday, August 10
The 2008 Dahlonega Literary Festival
Authors and illustrators attending include Karen Abbott, Steve Berry, Patti Callahan Henry, Nathalie Dupree, Joshilyn Jackson, Mark Braught, Laura Knorr-Braught, Jackie Cooper, Jack Bass, Mitchell Graham. Lots of kid’s events.
For more information, visit www.literaryfestival.org.
Saturday, August 9th
Hodge Steve Children’s Author & CPR Demonstration
11 am at Barnes & Noble in Columbus
706.653.0947 for information.
Charles Martin
Where the River Ends
2 pm at Books A Million in Savannah
Meesha Mink
Shameless Hoodwives
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Nancy Nichols
Secrets of the Ultimate Husband Hunter
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Marietta
770.422.2261 for information.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Chasing Life
2 pm at the Decatur Public Library
Sponsors: Georgia Center for the Book & Wordsmiths Books
Karin Slaughter
Fractured
3 pm at Borders in Marietta
770.565.0947 for information.
Sunday, August 10th
August is Romance Awareness Month
Authors Michele Sinclair, Missy Tippens, Gilian Summers, Michelle Roper, Berta Platas and more.
1 pm at Barnes & Noble in Marietta
770.422.2261 for information.
Joe Harris
The Stars That Never Shine
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Tuesday, August 12th
James Kautz
Footprints Across the South: Bartram’s Trail Revisited
7 pm at the Northeast Georgia History Museum in Gainesville
678.797.2214 for information.
Noah Andre Trudeau
Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea
7:15 at the Decatur Public Library
Sponsors: Georgia Center for the Book & Wordsmiths Books
Lauren Fix
Lauren Fix’s Guide to Loving Your Car
7:30 pm at Barnes & Noble in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.261.7747 for information.
Thursday, August 14th
Jay Hakes
A Declaration of Energy Independence
Reception at 6 pm & Program begins at 7 pm.
Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta
Jack Pendarvis
Awesome
8 pm Ballroom Book Bash at the Highland Inn (Atlanta)
Sponsors: A Capella Books & The Chattahoochee Review
404.681.5128 for more info.
Friday, August 15th
Mary R. Butler
Mama Peavy Says….
6:30 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Jack Pendarvis
Awesome
7:30 at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur
Saturday, August 16th
Whit Gibbons
Turtles of the Southeast
Reed Park in Augusta
www.ugapress.edu for information.
Glenda Krueger
Surviving the Tracks
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Columbus
706.653.7880 for information.
Trina Stroud
Writing My Face
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Sunday, August 17th
Arnold Fleischmann & Carol Pierannuzi
Politics in Georgia
2 pm at the Atlanta History Center
Reginald Beaty & Tony Owens
Faces of Change
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Tuesday, August 19th
Lesley Kagen
Land of A Hundred Wonders
7:30 pm at Barnes & Noble in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.261.7747.
Thursday, August 21st
Rev-Run (aka Joseph Simmons)
Take Back Your Family: A Challenge for American Families
7 pm at Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus
Sponsors: Georgia Center for the Book & Wordsmiths Books
Patty Brisben
Pure Romance Between the Sheets: Find Your Best Sexual Self and Enhance Your Intimate Relationship
7:30 pm at Barnes & Noble in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.261.7747 for information.
Saturday, August 23rd
Bill Curry
Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle
2 pm at Books A Million in Lawrenceville
Debbie Zep
Savannah: A Photographic Portrait
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Savannah
912.353.7757 for information.
Fiona Zedde
Hungry For It
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Sunday, August 24th
Pamela Mueller
Aloha Crossing
1 pm at Barnes & Noble in Savannah
912.353.7757 for information.
Thursday, August 28th
Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
7:30 pm at Charis Books and More in Atlanta
404.524.0304
Friday, August 29th-Sunday, August 31st
The 3rd Annual AJC Decatur Book Festival
250 authors in attendance, including Rick Bragg, Pearl Cleage, Billy Collins, John Dean, Eric Jerome Dickey, Emily Giffin, Lee Smith, and Karin Slaughter.
For more information, visit www.decaturbookfestival.com
Saturday, August 30th
Patti Pruit
Meeting Paddy O’Rourke
1 pm at Borders Books on Cobb Parkway
770.612.0940 for information.
Patrick McDonnell
South
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Dr. M. F.
Nothing’s Wrong
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Victoria Lang
To Liberia: Destiny’s Timing
4 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Patrick McDonnell
South
7 pm at Borders Books in Snellville
770.982.0454 for information.
Sunday, August 31st
Tony Di Terlizzi
Kenny & The Dragon
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Wednesday, September 3rd
Haywood Smith
Wedding Belles
7:30 pm at Barnes & Noble in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.261.7747 for information.
Thursday, September 4th
Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Athens
706.354.1195 for information.
Charla Muller
365 Nights
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur
Friday, September 5th
Martha Lucia Espinosa
Quantum Spirituality Symposium & Book Signing
6 pm at Barnes & Noble in Norcross
770.209.4244 for information.
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
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
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
Tuesday, September 16th
Charles Martin
Where the River Ends
7 pm at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta
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.
Tuesday, September 23rd
Stuart Woods
Hot Mahogany
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Thursday, September 25th
RM Johnson
The Million Dollar Deception
7 pm at Barnes & Noble at Camp Creek, East Point
404.349.0359 for information.
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 Board
Visit www.bookfaironthesquare.org for more info.
Wednesday, October 8th
Karen Head & Collin Kelley
Poetry Reading
8:15 pm at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
404.872.5338 for information.
Saturday, October 11th
Steve Doocy
Tales From the Dad Side
7 pm at Books A Million, Atlanta
Thursday, October 16th
Paula Deen
Paula Deen’s My First Cookbook
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Savannah
912.353.7757 for information.
Saturday, October 18th
2nd Annual Gwinnett Reading Festival
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
Tuesday, October 20th
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 12th
Stephen Bluestone
Poetry Reading
8:15 pm at Callanwolde Fine arts Center
404.872.5338.
Saturday, November 15th
5th Annual Savannah Children’s Book Festival
Forsyth Park, Savannah
Visit www.liveoakpl.org
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.
Thursday, August 7th
Sandy Jones
Great Expectations: Baby Gear
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Texas Governor Rick Perry
On My Honor
Borders Books in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.237.0707 for information.
Mark Baurlein
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
7:15 at the Decatur Public Library
Sponsors: Georgia Center for the Book & Wordsmiths Books
Friday, August 8th
Margaret Hoffman signing
7 pm at Barnes & Noble Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Laurinda Brown
The Highest Price for Passion
8 pm at Charis Books & More in Atlanta
404.524.0304
Friday, August 8th-Sunday, August 10
The 2008 Dahlonega Literary Festival
Authors and illustrators attending include Karen Abbott, Steve Berry, Patti Callahan Henry, Nathalie Dupree, Joshilyn Jackson, Mark Braught, Laura Knorr-Braught, Jackie Cooper, Jack Bass, Mitchell Graham. Lots of kid’s events.
For more information, visit www.literaryfestival.org.
Saturday, August 9th
Hodge Steve Children’s Author & CPR Demonstration
11 am at Barnes & Noble in Columbus
706.653.0947 for information.
Charles Martin
Where the River Ends
2 pm at Books A Million in Savannah
Meesha Mink
Shameless Hoodwives
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Nancy Nichols
Secrets of the Ultimate Husband Hunter
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Marietta
770.422.2261 for information.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Chasing Life
2 pm at the Decatur Public Library
Sponsors: Georgia Center for the Book & Wordsmiths Books
Karin Slaughter
Fractured
3 pm at Borders in Marietta
770.565.0947 for information.
Sunday, August 10th
August is Romance Awareness Month
Authors Michele Sinclair, Missy Tippens, Gilian Summers, Michelle Roper, Berta Platas and more.
1 pm at Barnes & Noble in Marietta
770.422.2261 for information.
Joe Harris
The Stars That Never Shine
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Tuesday, August 12th
James Kautz
Footprints Across the South: Bartram’s Trail Revisited
7 pm at the Northeast Georgia History Museum in Gainesville
678.797.2214 for information.
Noah Andre Trudeau
Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea
7:15 at the Decatur Public Library
Sponsors: Georgia Center for the Book & Wordsmiths Books
Lauren Fix
Lauren Fix’s Guide to Loving Your Car
7:30 pm at Barnes & Noble in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.261.7747 for information.
Thursday, August 14th
Jay Hakes
A Declaration of Energy Independence
Reception at 6 pm & Program begins at 7 pm.
Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta
Jack Pendarvis
Awesome
8 pm Ballroom Book Bash at the Highland Inn (Atlanta)
Sponsors: A Capella Books & The Chattahoochee Review
404.681.5128 for more info.
Friday, August 15th
Mary R. Butler
Mama Peavy Says….
6:30 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Jack Pendarvis
Awesome
7:30 at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur
Saturday, August 16th
Whit Gibbons
Turtles of the Southeast
Reed Park in Augusta
www.ugapress.edu for information.
Glenda Krueger
Surviving the Tracks
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Columbus
706.653.7880 for information.
Trina Stroud
Writing My Face
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Sunday, August 17th
Arnold Fleischmann & Carol Pierannuzi
Politics in Georgia
2 pm at the Atlanta History Center
Reginald Beaty & Tony Owens
Faces of Change
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Tuesday, August 19th
Lesley Kagen
Land of A Hundred Wonders
7:30 pm at Barnes & Noble in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.261.7747.
Thursday, August 21st
Rev-Run (aka Joseph Simmons)
Take Back Your Family: A Challenge for American Families
7 pm at Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus
Sponsors: Georgia Center for the Book & Wordsmiths Books
Patty Brisben
Pure Romance Between the Sheets: Find Your Best Sexual Self and Enhance Your Intimate Relationship
7:30 pm at Barnes & Noble in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.261.7747 for information.
Saturday, August 23rd
Bill Curry
Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle
2 pm at Books A Million in Lawrenceville
Debbie Zep
Savannah: A Photographic Portrait
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Savannah
912.353.7757 for information.
Fiona Zedde
Hungry For It
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Sunday, August 24th
Pamela Mueller
Aloha Crossing
1 pm at Barnes & Noble in Savannah
912.353.7757 for information.
Thursday, August 28th
Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
7:30 pm at Charis Books and More in Atlanta
404.524.0304
Friday, August 29th-Sunday, August 31st
The 3rd Annual AJC Decatur Book Festival
250 authors in attendance, including Rick Bragg, Pearl Cleage, Billy Collins, John Dean, Eric Jerome Dickey, Emily Giffin, Lee Smith, and Karin Slaughter.
For more information, visit www.decaturbookfestival.com
Saturday, August 30th
Patti Pruit
Meeting Paddy O’Rourke
1 pm at Borders Books on Cobb Parkway
770.612.0940 for information.
Patrick McDonnell
South
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Dr. M. F.
Nothing’s Wrong
2 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Victoria Lang
To Liberia: Destiny’s Timing
4 pm at Borders Books in Lithonia
678.526.2550 for information.
Patrick McDonnell
South
7 pm at Borders Books in Snellville
770.982.0454 for information.
Sunday, August 31st
Tony Di Terlizzi
Kenny & The Dragon
2 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Wednesday, September 3rd
Haywood Smith
Wedding Belles
7:30 pm at Barnes & Noble in Buckhead (Atlanta)
404.261.7747 for information.
Thursday, September 4th
Hollis Gillespie
Trailer Trashed
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Athens
706.354.1195 for information.
Charla Muller
365 Nights
7:30 pm at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur
Friday, September 5th
Martha Lucia Espinosa
Quantum Spirituality Symposium & Book Signing
6 pm at Barnes & Noble in Norcross
770.209.4244 for information.
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
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
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
Tuesday, September 16th
Charles Martin
Where the River Ends
7 pm at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta
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.
Tuesday, September 23rd
Stuart Woods
Hot Mahogany
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta
770.993.8340 for information.
Thursday, September 25th
RM Johnson
The Million Dollar Deception
7 pm at Barnes & Noble at Camp Creek, East Point
404.349.0359 for information.
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 Board
Visit www.bookfaironthesquare.org for more info.
Wednesday, October 8th
Karen Head & Collin Kelley
Poetry Reading
8:15 pm at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
404.872.5338 for information.
Saturday, October 11th
Steve Doocy
Tales From the Dad Side
7 pm at Books A Million, Atlanta
Thursday, October 16th
Paula Deen
Paula Deen’s My First Cookbook
7 pm at Barnes & Noble in Savannah
912.353.7757 for information.
Saturday, October 18th
2nd Annual Gwinnett Reading Festival
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
Tuesday, October 20th
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 12th
Stephen Bluestone
Poetry Reading
8:15 pm at Callanwolde Fine arts Center
404.872.5338.
Saturday, November 15th
5th Annual Savannah Children’s Book Festival
Forsyth Park, Savannah
Visit www.liveoakpl.org
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.
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