The 1970s were a golden era for writers in Atlanta. They knocked back martinis at Emile’s and held merry salons at The Old New York Book Shop. Everybody was tal...
Q&A: Novelist Christopher Swann dips into familiar territory for “Never Turn Back”
Atlanta writer Christopher Swann won an admiring audience with his deb...
Gordon Bynum was a civic-minded environmentalist, so he opted, whenever possible, to ride MARTA rather than drive his car.
In 1999, he got off a train and be...
Memoirs, by nature, involve some preening narcissism, but Georgia author and journalist Robert Coram is quick to indemnify himself as very much a hangdog undera...
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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