Thomas L. Friedman, "That Used to Be Us." 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26. $15 member, $22 nonmember. Marcus Jewish Community Center, Zaban Park, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. 678-812-3984, www.atlantajcc.org/specialevents/the-book-festival-of-the-mjcca.
Friedman (“From Beirut to Jerusalem,” “The World Is Flat”) looks at America’s four greatest challenges -- globalization, the revolution in information technology, chronic deficits and energy consumption.
John C. Inscoe, "The Civil War in Georgia." 7 p.m. Sept. 26. Discussion. Free. Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library, 5234 LaVista Road, Tucker. 770-270-8234, www.dekalblibrary.org/component/option,com_events/Itemid,133/agid,11442/day,26/month,09/task,view_detail/year,2011.
Patti Callahan Henry and Susan Gregg Gilmore. 6:30 p.m. Sept. 27. Discussion and book signing. $5. Book Exchange, 2956 Canton Road, Marietta. RSVP to 770-427-4848. www.bookexchangemarietta.com.
Affecting novels by Henry (“Coming Up for Air”) and Gilmore (“The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove”) examine Southern women and their journeys toward self-discovery.
Carapace: Faking It. 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27. Manuel's Tavern, 602 N. Highland Ave., Atlanta. 404-525-3447, http://manuelstavern.com.
Bring your five-minute tales related to all things fraudulent and pseudo. Flimflammers, mountebanks, poseurs and snake oil salesmen especially welcome.
Poetry Atlanta presents Rupert Fike and Brent Calderwood. 7:15 p.m. Sept. 27. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.
Joining Fike ("Lotus Buffet”) is San Francisco Bay Area journalist and poet Calderwood, winner of the recent Atlanta Queer Literary Festival’s Poetry Broadside Competition.
Martha Southgate, "The Taste of Salt." 7 p.m. Sept. 29. Reading and book signing. Free. Auburn Avenue Research Library, 101 Auburn Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-730-4001, www.afpls.org/aarl.
In this arresting story of a senior-level black scientist at a prestigious oceanographic institute, award-winning novelist Southgate examines a family pushed to the limits by addiction.
Nell Dickerson and Robert Hicks: The Role of Women in the Historic South. 7 p.m. Sept. 29. Lecture. Free. Cobb County Central Public Library, 266 Roswell Street, Marietta. 770-528-2342, www.cobbcat.org/EventsPage.html.
Hicks ("The Widow of the South”) joins photographer-architect Dickerson to discuss her new book, "Gone: A Photographic Plea for Preservation,” an eloquent examination of threatened historic structures around the South.
Mary Kay Andrews, "Summer Rental." 11:30 a.m. Sept. 30. $25, includes lunch. Georgian Club, 17th floor, 100 Galleria Parkway, Atlanta. http://cobblibraryfoundation.org/events/booked-for-lunch-author-series/mary-kay-andrews.
Proceeds from the Cobb Library Foundation’s weekday luncheon series provide assistance to a library staff member for continued education toward a master’s degree in library science.
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