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7-Day Author Forecast for Nov. 5-11
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nov. 6
Amy Chua. “How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance — and Why They Fall.” 7 p.m. at the Decatur Library. Chua, a Yale law professor, examines world powers such as the Mongol and British empires and looks at what lessons can be drawn. She concludes our immigration policies should not be restrictive. I haven’t read the book, but I read her last book, “World on Fire,” and thought it was flat-out brilliant in its analysis.
Nov. 7
Dalia Sofer and Gina Nahai. 11:45 a.m. at Marcus Jewish Community Center. Sofer’s debut novel is “The Septembers of Shiraz,” and Nahai’s novel is “Caspian Rain.” Both deal with Jewish life in Iran.
Nov. 8
Melissa Fay Greene. 11:45 a.m. at Marcus Jewish Community Center. I’ve already gone on at length on the greatness of Greene’s non-fiction skills. She’ll be talking about “There Is No Me Without You,”” her book about AIDS in Africa.
A.J. Jacobs. 7 p.m. at Sweetwater Brewery. In his funny and moving new book, “The Year of Living Biblically,” Jacobs writes that he is Jewish in the same way that Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant. Nevertheless, the agnostic spent one year following every single law in the Bible. He even tried to stone an adulterer.
Nov. 9
Finesse Mitchell. “Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much.” I don’t have all the particulars; will post when I get them. Mitchell is a comic and Essence columnist, writing about what men are really thinking. Uh-oh.
Donald McCaig. “Rhett Butler’s People.” 7 p.m. at Borders Buckhead —. I hear that the author of the companion volume to “Gone With the Wind” is a pretty cool guy. See for yourself.
Nov. 11
Marcus Zusak. “The Book Thief.” 7 p.m. at the Marcus Jewish Community Center as part of the Jewish Book Festival. The Book Thief” has gained a big reputation as a Young Adult novel about the Holocaust that adults pass around as well.
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