“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...
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,...
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 al...
In their new documentary, Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence, father-and-son filmmakers Hal and Henry Jacobs tell the story of author and activist Lillian Smit...
Nominations are being accepted for the first Fulton County Poet Laureate.
Fulton County’s Department of Arts and Culture is looking for an active writer with...
Alice Walker’s brief remarks seemed to stall time at the Plaza Arts Center in Eatonton last weekend. Hundreds of literature lovers descended on the rural town f...
When Alice Walker wrote, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it,” she was referring to the vivid wi...
During a brief reprieve from a nationwide book tour, Atlanta poet Jericho Brown spoke to ARTS ATL about The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press, 110 pages), his rece...
Fernbank Science Center will debut a new exhibit Sunday that focuses on Cumberland Island and will feature a talk by Carol Ruckdeschel, the longtime Cumberland ...
Lieutenant Elliot Ackerman was halfway through Operation Phantom Fury in the Second Battle of Fallujah (November 7–December 23, 2004) -- a battle in which 95 Am...
