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Monday, January 14, 2008
7-Day Author Forecast for Jan. 14-20
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday Jan. 14
Rafe Esquith. “Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire.” 6 p.m. at Margaret Mitchell House. $10 for non-members, free to members. How good a teacher is this guy? He not only won the president’s National Medal of the Arts, he won Oprah Winfrey’s Use Your Life Award. Now she just needs to put his book in her book club.
Tuesday Jan. 15
Geraldine Brooks. “People of the Book.” 6 p.m. at Margaret Mitchell House. Free for members, $10 for non-members. Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “March,” has a new historical novel about a a rare illuminated prayer book through the centuries.
Hope Fox. “Impress for Less!” 7 p.m. at Cook’s Warehouse in Midtown. The QVC personality cooks a little and talks about her new cookbook. She’ll also be at Bluepointe Restaurant in Buckhead 8-10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17.
Julie L. Cannon. “The Romance Reader’s Book Club.” 7:15 p.m. at the Decatur Library. Cannon is a Georgia author whose latest is about a 15-year-old girl who finds a stack of forbidden romance novels and forms a secret book club.
Wednesday Jan. 16
Kurt Andersen. “Heyday.” 7:15 p.m. at Decatur Library. Andersen discusses and signs his acclaimed best-seller, which is a Dickensian novel about many colorful characters in 1848.
Thursday Jan. 17
Open Faced Sandwich. Fifth Planet Press hosts the premier issue of a “literary annual of uncommon prose.” “Live readings and stark performances” are promised at the launch party. 8 p.m. at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, 290 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Free with purchase of book.
Friday Jan. 18
Melody Moezzi. “War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims.” 7:30 p.m. at Wordsmith Books in Decatur. Decaturite Moezzi is a young Iranian-American who has interviewed a dozen other young Muslims of many stripes: gay, feminist, devout, rebellious, questioning, materialistic. But not a terrorist in the bunch. The result should knock any notions of Islam as monolithic out of the park. She will read and sign her book and I can attest, as I’ve talked to her some, the event will probably be hopping with energy.
Saturday Jan. 19
David Fulmer. “The Blue Door.” 7:30 p.m. at Wordsmith Books in Decatur. Atlanta author Fulmer won the 2002 Shamus Award and 2006 Georgia Author of the Year. I’m new to him, but I’m reading “The Blue Door” and it is a fine mystery indeed, set in Philadelphia in the early ’60s, where a down-and-out prizefighter is drawns into the disappearance of a young soul singer. It’s damn good. Makes me want to get the paperback of “The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues,” which is set in Atlanta in the ’20s.
