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BOOKS
Book Fest speaker: Fate of Holocaust plunder pivot of Ayelet Waldman’s “Love & Treasure”
Ayelet Waldman admits she’s led a charmed life. A former criminal defense attorney, she began her literary career penning mysteries, then delved into essays and...
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Q&A: After reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi looks at American lit in “Republic of the Imagination”
Azar Nafisi’s international blockbuster Reading Lolita in Tehran chronicled her surreptitious teaching of forbidden Western texts in an Iran plagued by Islamic fundamentalism. The 2003...
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The MJCCA/Atlanta Book Festival and other event highlights through November 8
How lucky we are. Metro Atlanta hosts two blockbuster book festivals. The MJCCA/Atlanta Book Festival begins its 19-day run this weekend. The program is packed...
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Q&A: Anna Quindlen on women writers, creativity and new novel “Still Life with Bread Crumbs”
As a child, Anna Quindlen scanned the shelves in the library to see where the books she’d dreamed of writing might someday appear. Today, her...
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Q&A: Books are in Charlie Lovett’s blood and his new novel, “First Impressions”
Charlie Lovett’s sophomore novel, First Impressions, pulses with suspense and glitters with literary allusions. Alternating between the present and early 19th-century England, the story explores the...
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Review: Donald McCaig’s GWTW prequel “Ruth’s Journey” an unenlightened slog
It’s hard to imagine why the Margaret Mitchell estate would authorize a prequel to Gone With the Wind more than 75 years after the Pulitzer...
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Q&A: Editors reveal trove of 19th-century African American poetry in “Voices Beyond Bondage”
Voices Beyond Bondage (NewSouth Books), brings to light 150 poems that originally appeared in black-owned newspapers or pamphlets between 1827 and 1899. Where authorship is verifiable,...
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Q&A: Jodi Picoult’s interest in elephants’ “human” emotions propelled “Leaving Time”
Jodi Picoult, author of more than 20 books and a self-described workaholic, has been known to start a new novel the day after completing the...
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Review: War a prism to explore isolation, connection in Paolo Giordano’s “The Human Body”
To say that Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body is only about war is like saying that Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is only about hunting whales....
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THE ARTS
Marietta Chalkfest and other event highlights, October 8–18
Taking art to the streets, artists from around the country will wield chalk to decorate the environs of the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art and...
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Another opening, another show: event highlights, October 1–11
Apologies in advance for mixing metaphors. The Fall Art Season has burst into bloom. To learn more about the bounteous offerings, particularly from metro Atlanta’s...
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News: ArtsATL, Alexander recognized for arts coverage in Creative Loafing’s “Best Of”
For the second year in a row, ArtsATL has been named by the readers of Creative Loafing as the city’s Best Local Arts Website. In...
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