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7-Day Author Forecast for Dec. 3-9
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dec. 3
WordFeast: Food for the Body and Soul. 7:30 p.m. at Horizon Theater. Admission $15 or 15 canned goods for Atlanta Community Food Bank. This benefit combines book signings by local authors and readings by local actors. Signing: Tina McElroy Ansa, Carmen Deedy, Jim Grimsley, Robert Earl Price and Janece Shaffer. Reading: Tom Key, Brenda Bynum, Larry Larson, more.
Frank Warren. “A Lifetime of Secrets.” 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at PushPush Theater, 121 New Street, Decatur. Warren runs the website PostSecret, where people send in their secrets anonymously. He’s turned them into a couple of books, and they can vary from amusing and flip to unbelievably sad to just wonderfully human. He’s joined onstage by Davy Rothbart, editor of Found Magazine, which lives in the same sort of semi-private world as PostSecret. They’ll talk about their work, then Warren will sign books. Tickets are $20, and proceeds benefit National Hopeline Network, a suicide prevention group.
Dec. 5
Richard Mason. “The Red Scarf.” 7-10 p.m. at the New World of Coca-Cola at the Atlanta Press Club Holiday Author Party. Mason’s novel is inspired by his childhood in rural Arkansas in the ’40s, and and follows the adventures of a 12-year-old boy who wants to buy a $15 red scarf for the prettiest girl in his 7th grade class for Christmas.
Dec. 6
Nathan McCall. “Them.” 6 p.m. at Margaret Mitchell House. $10 for non-members. McCall, an Atlanta writer and scholar who currently teaches at Emory, has gotten very good reviews for his debut novel. It’s set very in contemporary reality, however, as black Atlantans in the Sweet Auburn area cope with gentrification efforts from white Atlantans.
CANCELLED. Tommy Hilfiger. “Iconic America.” 7:30 p.m. at Borders Buckhead.
Philip D. Beidler. “American Wars, American Peace.” 7:15 p.m. at the Decatur Library.
Ben Tanzler. “Lucky Man.” 7:30 p.m. at Wordsmith Books in Decatur.
Dec. 8
Jeff Foxworthy. Noon-2 p.m. at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Loganville. Atlanta’s gift to reality TV (“Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?”) will be signing his latest book, “Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck Dictionary III: Learning to Talk More Gooder Fastly.”” Boy, a Wal-Mart on a Saturday before Christmas with Jeff Foxworthy inside. No crowds expected there.
Dec. 9
Mary Kay Andrews. “Blue Christmas.” 1-3 p.m. at the Holiday Market, Community Club in Avondale Estates, part of the Avondale Tour of Homes. Kathy Hogan Trocheck, a close personal friend of this blog, will be signing her books, including those she writes under the name Mary Kay Andrews. Then you can head on over to her house and tromp right through it - how often can you do that with a beloved author? Good for you for doing this, Kathy; when it’s over, I’ll buy you a drink. For more information, go to www.avondaletourofhomes.com.
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By marykayandrews
December 5, 2007 7:39 AM | Link to this
Well, Phil—bring ‘em on, I say. The good news here is that the mouse who’d crawled behind the new stove to die has been evicted, courtesy of Mr. Mary Kay. The bad news is that I still have a two-page long punch list of things to do before the tour of homes. And there’s been no fiction writing around here. For weeks. Sigh.