“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me,” declares Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë’s seminal novel. “I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre in 1847, some 50 years before the women’s suffrage movement took hold in Britain. She published it under the pen name Currer Bell…
Kendra Lee’s new used bookstore, Bookish, is hard to miss. Located on Glenwood in the heart of East Atlanta Village, the little blue shop pops against nearby brown apartment buildings and gray auto shops. It’s a cheerful addition to an already eclectic neighborhood, and a little literary beacon for a community that’s been missing Bound…
Marietta’s Antiques on the Square has a secret. And it’s not Sweet Melissa Records, the once unknown but now widely popular record shop tucked into the back of Jim and Melissa Kumpe’s retail space. It’s a bookstore — an intimate and thoughtfully curated little bookshop sandwiched behind and between antique cameras and mid-century dinner plates,…
From a distance, there’s no way to tell that these creations aren’t made from fabric, that the fragile white cuffs and collars on the billowing gowns aren’t delicate lace, that the Grecian-columned dresses don’t actually drip in finely pleated silk. But such is the magic of self-taught Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave in Fashioning Art…
The new novel by Alice Hoffman will break your heart from its very first pages, but it’ll spend the rest of its chapters helping you put it back together. In The World That We Knew, the New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 books — including Practical Magic and its prequel, The Rules…
Pat Mitchell first declared herself a dangerous woman in a 2017 meeting called by Eve Ensler, activist and playwright of The Vagina Monologues. But Mitchell has been dangerous — shaking up the media landscape over the course of a multi-decade career while tirelessly advocating for women and girls — since she first began working in…
The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta’s annual book festival kicks off its 2019 programming at the end of October with two “prologue events.” The first features Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the acclaimed composer Leonard Bernstein, speaking about her new book, Famous Father Girl, with WABE City Lights host, Lois Reitzes, at 8 p.m. Saturday,…
“Reading parented me,” says Georgia-based writer Soniah Kamal. Indeed, it was “everything” to the author and essayist, who’s scheduled to speak at the Broadleaf Writers Conference on September 21–22. Kamal was born in Pakistan and received her education at an international school in Saudi Arabia, where she sought refuge in the library, its shelves stocked…
Come Labor Day weekend, Decatur will once again find itself besieged by thousands of bibliophiles for the city’s annual Decatur Book Festival. The festival, which began in 2006 and is now considered one of the biggest literary events in the country, hosts more than 60,000 visitors each year over the course of its three days….
Philippa Gregory’s new novel Tidelands is a marked departure, in both character and setting, from her tales of the royal Tudor and Plantagenet courts. But it also keeps perfectly in line with Gregory’s oeuvre in its placing a complex, dynamic woman at its center. Gregory, an international bestselling author of over 20 novels, including The Other…
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