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Monday, October 22, 2007
7-Day Author Forecast for Oct. 22-28
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here is your 7-day forecast of author appearances in metro Atlanta. As always, everything is subject to change. And not just in this blog, either.
Tonight - Oct. 22
Tom Perotta. “The Abstinence Teacher.” 6 p.m. at Margaret Mitchell House. Free to members, $10 for non-members. The author of “Little Children” writes again about sex and suburbia.
Thomas L. McHaney. Leading Faulknerian scholar presents part two of his illustrated lecture series “Faulkner and the Plain People of the South.” 7:15 p.m. at Decatur Library. Sponsored by Georgia Center for the Book.
Oct. 23
Carl Bernstein. “A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.” 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, Buckhead. Former Watergate reporter has written a biography of Hillary Clinton, and her campaign wishes he hadn’t.
David R. Kaufman. “Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta’s Watershed.” 6 p.m. at Rich Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center.
Oct. 24
Susan Faludi. “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America.” 6 p.m. reception at Margaret Mitchell House. Free to members, $10 to non-members. Non-traditional look at what we’ve been about since 9/11, with an emphasis on gender roles and pop mythology, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author/scholar.
Frye Gaillard. “Prophet From Plains.” 7:15 p.m. at Decatur Library. Southern expert discusses and signs his new book about Jimmy Carter.
Dana Thomas. “Luxe.” Style-culture reporter for Newsweek talks about her new book about “the decline of quality in the new world of luxury.” If your Lexus won’t start afterward, you get a free tow. 7:30 p.m., Wordsmith Books, Decatur.
Oct. 25
Lance Bass. “Out of Sync.” 8 p.m. at Outwrite Books, Midtown. The former NSync band member talks about his life, his music, his sexuality. OK, everybody, settle down.
Oct. 28
Delia Champion. “The Flying Biscuit Cafe Cookbook.” 2 p.m. at Wordsmith Books. Brunch is served. Seriously.
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Dumbledore was gay. Seriously.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Update on the whole Dumbledore is gay thing
I just found a website that is already making and selling new Dumbledore shirts. One has a drawing of the Hogwarts headmaster and the caption “I always knew.”
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling stunned fans at a Q&A session at Carnegie Hall Friday night when she said that Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore was gay.
According to the Associated Press, her bombshell brought gasps, then applause. There was never anything overt in the Potter books to make fans think Potter’s mentor might be gay, although there are some passages in the seventh book that Rowling now points to.
Dumbledore, she said, was in love with Grindewald, a wizard he knew as a young man and ultimately defeated in battle.
‘“You cannot imagine how his ideas caught me, Harry, inflamed me,’” Dumbledore says in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”
“Neither Dumbledore nor Grindelwald ever seems to have referred to this brief boyhood friendship in later life,’” Rowling writes. “However, there can be no doubt that Dumbledore delayed, for some five years of turmoil, fatalities, and disappearances, his attack upon Gellert Grindelwald. Was it lingering affection for the man or fear of exposure as his once best friend that caused Dumbledore to hesitate?”
On the one hand, Dumbledore is Rowlings’ creation, and she can make him anything she wants. On the other hand, this whole revelation just feels very weird after we thought we knew this character. Which may, of course, be the point.
One reassurance in all this: At least we can be confident that certain folks with an anti-Harry bias will just let this one slide and not stir up an even bigger stink. Am I right?
So what do you think of the Dumbledore is gay revelation?
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