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Books Best Bets: March 29–April 5, 2019

Below the Line offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie-making in Atlanta

Books Best Bets: March 8–14, 2019

Q&A: Lana Rigsby on the responsibility, philosophy and future of design

Q&A: Good Riddance author Elinor Lipman on finding humor in unexpected places

Q&A: ARTS ATL catches up with bestselling novelist and Atlanta native Tayari Jones

How “An American Marriage” brought Atlanta author Tayari Jones back home

Review: Learning to want it both ways in Maggie Nelson’s genre-fluid “The Argonauts”

Review Round-Up: Anderson’s views of Mt. Fuji, Shaw’s missing link, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Franks’ “Plain Houses,” “Ragtime”

Preview: Desiree Cooper’s “Know the Mother” offers haunting accounts of gender role limitations

Beth WardMarch 29, 2019

Each Friday, we’ll round up our top literary picks for the week ahead – from author events and book signings to spoken word open mics, story times for your litt...

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Peterson HillMarch 22, 2019

Film sets are an otherworldly space, particularly big-budget Hollywood productions. A small army of people work toward the common goal of getting the movie on t...

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Beth WardMarch 8, 2019

Each Friday, we’ll round up our top literary picks for the week ahead – from upcoming readings and book signings, to spoken word open mics, story times for your...

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Sherri CaudellFebruary 20, 2019

Lana Rigsby has been a designer since birth. Her artist mother taught her to draw long before Lana knew she wanted to communicate visually. Years passed before ...

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Gail O'NeillFebruary 11, 2019

As a novelist, Elinor Lipman fashions herself the literary equivalent of a puppeteer -- pulling strings to animate her protagonists and villains, setting them o...

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Gail O'NeillFebruary 4, 2019

It was a chance conversation overheard at a mall that would help Atlanta native and novelist Tayari Jones begin to build the characters that would skyrocket An ...

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Gail O'NeillJanuary 21, 2019

Tayari Jones was researching race, incarceration and the criminal justice system during a fellowship at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute when the idea first struck...

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Nick SturmMay 2, 2016

Generous is a word that circulates and frames so many descriptions of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, a genre-fluid memoir that was recently awarded the 2015 Nat...

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ARTS ATL StaffApril 28, 2016

ART + DESIGN: Ashley Anderson's The 101 Views of Mt. Fuji at Eyedrum Art + Music Gallery An archaeological survey reveals culture from fragments, and Ashley A...

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Gail O'NeillApril 8, 2016

It took a panic attack for Desiree Cooper to acknowledge that she could either follow her lifelong calling to be a writer— which began when she was 4 years old—...

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