Candice Dyer, Author at ARTS ATL

Daren Wang to step down as AJC Decatur Book Festival executive director; book review: “The Hidden Light of Northern Fires”

Candice DyerAugust 14, 2017

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. ...

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A conversation with Denene Millner about empowering African-American children through literature

Candice DyerJune 28, 2017

Denene Millner, the doting mother of two daughters, was weary of the selection of books marketed to parents of African-American children....

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A conversation with Bruce Feiler about the ongoing relevance of Adam and Eve

Candice DyerMarch 31, 2017

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 ...

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Review: “The Mothers” creates an intimate, nuanced morality

Candice DyerMarch 24, 2017

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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Review: UGA Press’ “Lillian Smith Reader” fortifies the author’s brazen legacy

Candice DyerOctober 20, 2016

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Preview: A conversation with Kate Sweeney about her parenthood-centric series, Tantrum!

Candice DyerJuly 12, 2016

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....

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Review: the truest grit, a reflection on “Blood, Bone and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews”

Candice DyerMay 26, 2016

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....

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A conversation with Editor Karen Head about upcoming changes at the Atlanta Review

Candice DyerMarch 9, 2016

Most people don't associate the Georgia Institute of Technology with iambic pentameter, but, starting this summer, the engineering school will become the new he...

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Appreciation: Pat Conroy’s lyrical, textured prose was a true echo of the South

Candice DyerMarch 7, 2016

Pat Conroy, a writer whose lyrical, richly textured prose evoked the South against a backdrop of traumatic family dysfunction, has died of pancreatic cancer. ...

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Paul Hemphill, bard of the backwoods, to enter Georgia Writers Hall of Fame posthumously

Candice DyerOctober 29, 2015

The late Paul Hemphill in 1998. ( Photo by Susan Percy) Let others chart the swifter shoals of Los Angeles and New York. Long before anyone coined the expres...

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