Susan Rebecca White, "A Place at the Table." 6:30 p.m. June 2. Talk, reading and signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org. Joshilyn Jackson ("A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty") joins White ("A Soft Place to Land") onstage for this discussion.
Naked City: Shame. 8:30 p.m. June 3. Variety show. Free ($5-$15 suggested donation). Atlanta Goat Farm, 1200 Foster St., Atlanta. www.facebook.com/thegoatfarmartscenter. Come at 8 p.m. to sign up for this monthly literary performance. You'll have five minutes to do your thing, related to the theme. Hosts are Bernard Setaro Clark and Gina Rickicki. More details at www.nakedcityatlanta.com.
Mary Hood. 7:15 p.m. June 3. Talk and signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org. The Georgia Review's spring 2013 issue is devoted to Hood, whose work also appears in the recently published anthology "Stories Waiting to Be Heard: Selected Fiction From Six Decades of the Georgia Review."
Ivy Hall Writers Series: Augusten Burroughs, "This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't." 6:30 p.m. June 4. Talk and signing. $10. SCAD Atlanta, Events Space, 4th floor, Building C, 1600 Peachtree St. N.W., Atlanta. Burroughs ("Running With Scissors") explores what it takes to get over everything from failed diets, lost jobs and endless bad relationships to contemplating suicide.
Denise Kiernan, "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story Of the Women Who Helped Win World War II." 7 p.m. June 4. Reading and signing. Free. Jimmy Carter Library & Museum, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov. At the height of World War II, thousands of civilians — many of them young women from small towns across the South — were recruited to work in the factories of a secret city not on any map. Few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed at Oak Ridge, Tenn. — tasks that would play a dramatic role in ending the war.
Karen White, "The Time Between." 7 p.m. June 6. Signing. $5 or free with purchase of the book. Bookmiser, 4651 Sandy Plains Road, Roswell. 770-993-1555, www.bookmiser.net. Also appearing: 7 p.m. June 7. Free. Mansell Crossings SC Barnes & Noble, Alpharetta. http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/1955.
Charlie Lovett, "The Bookman's Tale." 7:15 p.m. June 5. Discussion and signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org. Also appearing: 6:30 p.m. June 6. Horizon Theatre, Atlanta. www.horizontheatre.com.
Ross Mathews, "Man Up!" 7 p.m. June 6. $29.95. Buckhead Theatre, 3110 Roswell Road N.E., Atlanta. 404-843-2825, www.thebuckheadtheatre.com. A new memoir from farm boy-turned-TV personality-comedian Mathews reveals the most embarrassing and hilarious moments of his small-town life and big-city adventures.
Gwen Cooper, "Love Saves the Day." 6 p.m. June 6. Meet-and-greet and signing. Free. Good Mews Cat Shelter, 736 Johnson Ferry Road, Marietta. 770-499-2287, www.goodmews.org. Cat lover, animal activist and author Cooper will sign copies of her new book, about a cat who adopts the perfect human, and "Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale," Cooper's memoir about her blind cat. A Cappella Books will donate 10 percent of book sales at the event to the shelter.
Ivy Hall Writers Series: Jeanette Walls, "The Silver Star." 6:30 p.m. June 11. Talk and signing. Ticketed event. $10-$28. Gallery See, SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. 404-253-3324, www.artofrestoration.org/events/calendar.cfm. Tickets are available in advance at acappellabooks.com or in person at A Cappella Books, 208 Haralson Ave. N.E., Atlanta. In a novel that echoes Walls' best-selling memoir "The Glass Castle," two young sisters rely on each other after their mother disappears to pursue a singing career.
