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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.
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January 16, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this
Had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.
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January 16, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this
But her death, which happened ten years before his own.
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Produced a great alteration in his home.
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January 16, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this
For to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew.
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Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate.
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And the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
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In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children.
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The old Gentleman’s days were comfortably spent.
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But her death, which happened ten years before his own.
By Jack
January 18, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this
For to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew.
By Pole
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And the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
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The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes.
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Which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart.
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Which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart.
By Poter
January 19, 2008 1:06 AM | Link to this
Produced a great alteration in his home.
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January 19, 2008 1:49 AM | Link to this
Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate.
By Kooler
January 19, 2008 3:19 AM | Link to this
The old Gentleman’s days were comfortably spent.
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Which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart.
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January 19, 2008 5:34 AM | Link to this
Had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.
By Huter
January 19, 2008 5:55 AM | Link to this
But her death, which happened ten years before his own.
By Looper
January 19, 2008 7:15 AM | Link to this
Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate.