Novelist Marc Fitten will deliver two lectures on writing fiction at 7 p.m. August 13 and 21 at Manuel’s Tavern, 602 N. Highland Avenue. (To register, contact...
When I first read “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” Alexandra Fuller’s riveting 2001 memoir of growing up white and fiercely racist in Africa in the 1970s a...
In May 1890, after a brilliant but lunatic period of art-making, Vincent Van Gogh left a mental asylum in the south of France in hopes of a new beginning. He we...
Tayari Jones was a girl growing up in southwest Atlanta at the time of the city's grisly series of child murders. The killings became the context of her first ...
Thomas Mullen won the Townsend Prize for Fiction on Thursday night for his novel “The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers," an inventive magical-realist tale ...
In the 1970s and ’80s, Ann Beattie’s stories appeared in The New Yorker magazine like snapshots of the times, her lens trained on a stratum of educated, liberal...
Childhood is a paradise we’re all evicted from, some more violently than others.
Writer Monique Truong, who was born in Saigon in 1968 and fled her country ...
Amber Dermont has kept a low profile in Atlanta for the seven years she’s lived here, teaching writing and working on her first novel. That book, “The Starboard...
“Reading My Father”
By Alexandra Styron. Scribner, 256 pages.
Not so long ago, William Styron was an esteemed heavyweight of American literature. Though he wa...
Novelist Joshilyn Jackson and Emory University creative writing professor Joseph Skibell are among the 10 finalists recently announced for the 2012 Townsend Pri...
