Photo by John Lenz
This weekend’s AJC Decatur Book Festival is the biggest, but not the only event this weekend. For information on the week ahead, check out Ed Hall’s highlights and WABE’s website, Atlanta Planit – a click away on our calendar page.
To help you get a handle on DBF, we offer these stories. We also invite you to join ArtsATL critics at the events listed below.
Georgia novelists Claire Cook, Karen White and Kimberly Brooks
Bettina Love on hip-hop learning, Randall Kennedy on affirmative action
Congressman John Lewis‘ graphic novel, “March”
Crime writer Amanda Kyle Williams
Wendy Wax and Downton Abbey
Jennifer Haigh on News From Heaven: The Bakerton Stories
Young adult author Terra Elan McVoy
art/DBF, the festival’s new art component
Parul Kapur Hinzen will moderate a panel discussion on “Rights in Fiction” with novelists Susan Rebecca White (A Place at the Table), Susan Crandall (Whistling Past the Graveyard) and Minrose Gwin (The Queen of Palmyra). 5:30 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church Sanctuary Stage. Hinzen will also introduce novelist Manil Suri. She will live-tweet from John Lewis’ keynote address at 8 p.m. Friday.
Sarah Sacha Dollacker will introduce author Melody Moezzi. (Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life)4:15 p.m. Saturday at Eddie’s Attic.
Anjali Enjeti will introduce young fans to best-selling author Gordon Korman, author of The 39 Clues series. Korman’s newest novel, The Hypnotists Book 1: Hypnotize Me, features a young boy with special powers. 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Children’s Stage.
Soniah Kamal will introduce authors of young adult fiction who will discuss the dilemma of what happens “When Good Girls Go Bad.” With Atlanta’s Terra Elan McVoy (Criminal), Caprice Crane (Confessions of a Hater) and Sara Shepard (teen series Pretty Little Liars). 2 p.m. Sunday at the Teen Stage.
