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“Rough voices mutter in the darkness and seconds later, a body tumbles from an outcropping of rock.” So begins The Fall, the new mystery from Atlanta’s own master storyteller David Fulmer. When a vintage song and a random phone call draw Richard Zale back to his hometown, he encounters a puzzle that entwines threads [...]
Corked is a book about a father, a daughter and wine. Yes, it’s another memoir but we’re not going to hold that against it if only because it appears that Kathryn Borel’s book may contain some useful information like how to open a bottle of champagne with a sword. See the video below.
She will be [...]
Elyssa East, a native of Marietta now residing in the city of a million trees, will discuss and sign copies of her new book Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town. The book examines a grisly murder and an abandoned colonial-era village on the outskirts of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
That town, [...]
By Yankee Rose
Last night launched the inaugural meeting of the A-List Literates at Eddie’s Attic! We had a great time – beers and books were had by all. Next month, we will be celebrating the Ides of March with a Shakespeare tribute via Christopher Moore’s Fool. If you missed my review of it [...]
Margaret Atwood will visit Atlanta on February 23 to discuss her latest novel, The Year of the Flood.
Margaret Atwood won the Man Booker Prize for the The The Blind Assassin in 2000. She has been on the short list for that prize five times since her breakthrough 1986 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. She [...]
By Yankee Rose
The other day Rube pointed out that I’ve been reading a lot of books about love lately. Maybe he noticed that I have been tearing up behind the paperbacks, or maybe he checked the reading list, but either way he was on to something. Love is a favorite theme among authors; few other [...]
Thomas E. Ricks, is a widely recognized expert on American foreign policy, a journalist for The Washington Post, a blogger for Foreign Policy, and author of 2005’s account of the Iraq war, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005. He will visit the Decatur Public Library (our favorite place to catch [...]
