Author events, March 15-21
Jamie Kornegay, "Soil," with Susan Rebecca White. 7 p.m. March 16. Talk, signing. Free; reservations recommended. Margaret Mitchell House & Museum, 990 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. 404-814-4150, atlantahistorycenter.com/visit/event/691?calendar=month. Kornegay debuts with a darkly comic novel about an idealistic farmer who moves his family to a Mississippi flood basin and encounters ruinous bad luck.
Susan Crawford, "The Pocket Wife." 7 p.m. March 17. Talk, signing. Free. Eagle Eye Book Shop, 2076 N. Decatur Road, Decatur. 404-486-0307, eagleeyebooks.com/calendar.html. In this psychological thriller, a woman suffering from memory loss wonders if she murdered her friend and neighbor.
Marilynne Robinson and Erin Bonning. 7:30 p.m. March 17. Discussion. Free. Reception Hall, Level Three, Michael C. Carlos Museum, 571 S. Kilgo Circle, Atlanta. 404-727-4282, carlos.emory.edu/visit/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D113057261. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robinson ("Gilead"), and Emory University astrophysicist Bonning discuss the power of creation stories and the ways science and religion seek to illuminate our understanding of our place in the cosmos.
Joseph A. Califano Jr., "The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson." 7 p.m. March 17. Reading, discussion, signing. Free. Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, acappellabooks.com/event/joseph-califano-jr-book-signing. A top domestic aide to LBJ offers a nuanced look at one of our most effective and divisive presidents.
Frye Gaillard, "Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters." 8 p.m. March 19. $10. Reservations required. Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Road N.W., Atlanta. 404-814-4150, atlantahistorycenter.com/visit/event/693?calendar=month. Gaillard reflects on the Civil War through family letters, including from his great-great grandfather, whose two sons were Confederate officers.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism." 8 p.m. March 19. Lecture. Free. Tickets available at Room 306, Hermann Hall, or call 706-236-2226. Steven J. Cage Athletic and Recreation Center, Berry College, 2277 Martha Berry Highway N.W., Rome. 706-232-5374, berry.edu/newsdetail/?nid=51539616643. Best-selling historian Goodwin won a Pulitzer prize for "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt."
Blaine Harden, "The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot." 7:15 p.m. March 19. Talk, signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=764. Harden ("Escape From Camp 14") uses contrasting portraits of founder Kim Il Sung and a MiG pilot who flew to freedom six decades ago to explain the origins of the North Korean state.
Carrie Rollwagen, "The Localist: Think Independent, Buy Local, and Reclaim the American Dream." 7 p.m. March 19. Discussion, signing. A Cappella Books, 208 Haralson Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-681-5128, acappellabooks.com/event/local-alive-little-five-scavenger-hunt-and-carrie-rollwagen-book-signing. Rollwagen will talk with Eric Levin of Criminal Records about her year of shopping locally. The above link has information on the Local Is Alive in Little Five scavenger hunt scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m.
David Joy, "Where All the Light Tend to Go." 1 p.m. March 21. Talk, signing. Free. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock. 770-516-9989, foxtalebookshoppe.com/events. Also appearing: 2 p.m. March 22. Reading. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-3070, Ext. 2285; georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=765. "Winter's Bone" meets "Breaking Bad" in the story of a young man in rural North Carolina seeking redemption from his family's economic mainstay: methamphetamine.
