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‘Girls of Atomic City’ goes behind Manhattan Project scenes
Now in their 80s and 90s, the girls of Atomic City are no longer in the dark about the jobs they took during the summer of 1943. But back then, as young employees of the Clinton Engineering Works, they knew only a few things for sure about the place they ...
Coming of age in a prison of notoriety
“She’s a complete blank,” the playwright John Guare once said, trying to explain the public fascination with Amanda Knox, the American student accused (along with two men) of murdering her housemate Meredith Kercher during a sex escapade gone awry in Italy. “You can project anything on to her. Is she ...
David Sedaris' latest a sardonic hoot, as always
Sometimes when I’m reading a book by David Sedaris (and laughing my head off), I wonder how he does it. His carefully honed persona is, after all, snarky, petty, vindictive, judgmental and colossally self-absorbed — so why do so many fans love him? A possible answer emerges in his new ...
Witness honors dying days, life
Pick the least likely place to start life over, and that’s where a Jill McCorkle story begins. She has always had an eye for those moments when to go forward means to take a leap into the unknown, and in books like “Ferris Beach,” “Creatures of Habit” and “Carolina Moon,” ...
Smoltz writes his life's journey
“Why?” John Smoltz asks near the beginning of his candid and heartfelt memoir, “Starting and Closing.” “Why did I come back from Tommy John surgery at age 34 with one year left on my contract? Why did I go to the bullpen after more than decade as a starter … ...
'Whistling Dixie’ focuses on Civil War re-enactors
Atlanta photographer Anderson Scott has spent years documenting the strange byways of Southern life. He previously documented the ruins of the Nuwaubian religious cult in Putnam County, Georgia. More recently Scott has turned his lens on the practitioners of the Civil War reenactments that take place across the South. In ...
Author writes a new chapter
The undisputed best moments for Bill Starr during his tenure as director of the Georgia Center for the Book were those nights when he’d introduce an author to a packed house of 1,000 people, and after the reading the audience would rush out and line up to have its books ...
New baseball titles feature the business side, Jackie Robinson and the DiMaggios
George Plimpton knew the score. A generation or so ago, the late Paris Review editor developed what he called the “Small Ball Theory” of sports writing, which posits “a correlation between the standard of writing about a particular sport and the ball it utilizes - that the smaller the ball, ...
A hardscrabble life in rural W.V.
“The best way to do anything,” writes Scott McClanahan in his new memoir, “is to get a bunch of poor people to do it.” And “Crapalachia” is the place to find them. You may know it better as Appalachia. Home to coal mining companies whose abuse of their workers and ...
'Gulp' follows food on its travels
We love food. We savor it, digest it, absorb the best and pass the rest. That journey between the tip of your tongue and the seat of your pants might seem like a humdrum subject for a science book. But Roach — an author who has written smart but irreverent ...
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