Mesmerism is both the medium and the message in The Magnetic Girl, Jessica Handler’s unconventional debut novel, which proves as compelling as its young heroine...
It was announced over the weekend that Daren Wang, the Co-Founder of the AJC Decatur Book Festival, will step down as Executive Director at the end of 2017 to focus on other projects. His debut novel, The Hidden Light of Norther Fires, reviewed below by Candice Dyer, will launch during the 12th annual festival, September 1-3. ...
Like countless pilgrims before him, Bruce Feiler experienced a revelation at the Sistine Chapel.
He had his two daughters in tow, and they wanted to know why ...
The Mothers, Brit Bennett’s assured fiction debut, revolves around a long-held secret.
The reader is in on it from the beginning, though, because as the opening sentence says, “We didn’t believe when we first heard because you know how church folk can gossip.”...
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For four years, from 2010 to 2014, Kate Sweeney, a writer and host for WABE, ran a popular reading series out of Kavarna called “True Story.” The bi-monthly reading entertained rapt listeners and helped catalyze a renaissance of Atlanta’s literary scene. But then motherhood happened and Sweeney decided to take time off to have a baby. She was pleased to discover, even when exhausted and sleep-deprived, that maternity inspired her imagination....
This thoroughly detailed and bracingly frank biography has entire sections devoted to Crews’ brawling and his prodigious drinking and drug use, making for a compelling read. Crews’ life story, in fact, comes across like one of his novels: gothic, lusty, battered, excessive and gloriously lurid....
