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Wednesday April 4, 2018 12:00 am EDT
The lost era of great photography — and, of course, Al Clayton
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Atlanta author Steven Cooper kicks off series with 'Desert Remains' Book Review, Fresh Loaf
Friday December 8, 2017 04:14 pm EST
A toasty murder mystery emerges from the creative hub of Atlanta
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Book Review - Grady paramedics at center of Kevin Hazzard's 'Strangers' Book Review
Friday October 23, 2015 04:00 am EDT
A bold new memoir reveals the secret life of public health professionals
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Book Review - A Chinese legend comes to the West Book Review
Monday September 7, 2015 04:00 am EDT
Alexandra Curry's debut novel brings history to the present
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Book Review - The Book of Luke' is full of surprises Book Review
Tuesday September 1, 2015 04:00 am EDT
Luther Campbell's memoir is a journey in Southern culture and rap history
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Book Review - A conversation with author Wendy Wax Book Review
Tuesday July 28, 2015 04:00 am EDT
A Week at the Lake scribe talks female relationships and writing about women
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Book Review - Race, class, and basketball collide in Chris Leslie-Hynan's 'Ride Around Shining' Book Review
Wednesday June 17, 2015 04:00 am EDT
Chris Leslie-Hynan exposes the racism that exists within the world of professional sports
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Book Review - In the shadow of 'The World's Largest Man' Book Review
Wednesday June 10, 2015 04:00 am EDT
Harrison Scott Key's memoir on his father will tickle your funny bone
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Book Review - How Jim Grimsley unlearned racist lessons Book Review
Wednesday June 10, 2015 04:00 am EDT
Emory professor's new book revisits how 1960s school integration blew apart his own prejudices
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Book Review - Caroline Clarke's 'Cookie' is stranger than fiction Book Review
Wednesday May 6, 2015 04:00 am EDT
Book details the reunion of Nat King Cole's daughter and granddaughter
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Book Review - David Joy's big country noir debut Book Review
Wednesday March 18, 2015 04:00 am EDT
Where All Light Tends to Go' leaves a great first impression
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Book Review - Braggsville' puts T. Geronimo Johnson in good company Book Review
Monday March 9, 2015 04:00 am EDT
Author's semi-autobiographical novel is modernism circa 2015
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Book Review - Jonathan Odell entertains and educates in new novel Book Review
Wednesday February 4, 2015 04:00 am EST
'Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League' wants to give us all a history lesson
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Book Review - Heart 'Behind the Tape' Book Review
Wednesday December 17, 2014 04:00 am EST
DJ Mars harnessed hip-hop's DIY spirit to publish definitive book on mixtapes
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Book Review - Murray Farish gets Inappropriate Book Review
Thursday October 16, 2014 01:00 am EDT
New author's short story collection proves 'unnerving for everyone'
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Book Review - Congressman John Lewis readies 'March' sequel Book Review
Thursday July 24, 2014 04:00 am EDT
Atlanta civil rights icon wants to see his graphic novel in every American school and library
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Book Review - Malcolm Gladwell's critics need the faith of David Book Review
Wednesday January 22, 2014 04:00 am EST
Publishing industry Goliath's epic battles with detractors throw monkey wrench in his own pop theory
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Book Review - Jamie Iredell takes a straightforward turn in I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac Book Review
Monday December 2, 2013 04:00 am EST
The local author's third books collects his recent essays
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Book Review - Scott McClanahan writes with ecstatic energy in Hill William Book Review
Tuesday November 26, 2013 04:00 am EST
The prolific short-story writer delivers an admirable first novel
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Book Review - Beatles vs. Stones Book Review
Wednesday October 30, 2013 04:00 am EDT
Author John McMillian puts a new spin on an age-old debate
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Book Review - Deanna Sirlin seeks out female artists in She's Got What it Takes Book Review
Monday October 7, 2013 04:00 am EDT
The artist interviews her influences in the new book
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Book Review - Charles McNair finally returns with 'Pickett's Charge' Book Review
Wednesday September 11, 2013 07:00 am EDT
Charles McNair reflects on the road to release of his second book, a novel 20 years in the making
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Book Review - Nine Years Under Book Review
Tuesday August 6, 2013 04:00 am EDT
Author Sheri Booker digs deep in her memoir about coming of age in a funeral home
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Book Review - A field guide to Coconut Poetry Book Review
Tuesday July 9, 2013 04:00 am EDT
The Atlanta indie poetry press will be releasing nine poetry collections throughout 2013. Here's the skinny on what they have in store.
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Book Review - Let us now praise James Agee, again Book Review
Wednesday June 12, 2013 04:00 am EDT
A newly discovered manuscript gives insight to his rejected masterwork
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Book Review - Where did black love go? Book Review
Thursday May 23, 2013 04:00 am EDT
A new book of essays offers 44 answers on the state of marriage among African-Americans
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Book Review - Criminal activity drives Terra McVoy's latest novel Book Review
Wednesday May 1, 2013 04:00 am EDT
Local young adult novelist takes a dark, illicit turn with her fifth novel
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Book Review - Georgia author Jamie Quatro scores a critical hit with debut story collection Book Review
Monday April 15, 2013 01:40 pm EDT
I Want to Show You More explores infidelity and faith
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Book Review - Mad over Rachel Maddow Book Review
Tuesday March 19, 2013 04:00 am EDT
How a butch in pantsuits gave liberal media its balls back
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Book Review - Colson Whitehead isn't giving interviews right now Book Review
Wednesday February 13, 2013 04:00 am EST
The MacArthur Genius novelist reads Feb. 21 at GSU
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Book Review - Field guide to Blake Butler Book Review
Monday December 3, 2012 04:22 pm EST
In anticipation of his seventh book, Sky Saw, a look at Butler's work so far
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Book Review - Junot DÃaz's cheating heart Book Review
Wednesday September 12, 2012 04:00 am EDT
Pulitzer Prize
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Book Review - Josh Russell's new novel explores grad school's savage lot Book Review
Friday August 3, 2012 04:00 am EDT
A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag: A Novel puts higher ed in a low light
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Book Review - A summer reading list for 2012 Book Review
Tuesday May 15, 2012 02:00 pm EDT
New books from Richard Ford, Padgett Powell, Jess Walter, and others round out these beach read picks
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Book Review - Anne Lamott teams with her son to document his first year of fatherhood Book Review
Thursday March 15, 2012 04:00 am EDT
Lamott follows up her seminal Operating Instructions with Some Assembly Required
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Book Review - Kevin Young's inner poet and professor wrestle in The Grey Album Book Review
Wednesday March 7, 2012 04:00 am EST
The Emory professor takes on the breadth of African-American culture in his ambitious nonfiction work
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Book Review - Nelson George and Bernice L. McFadden rewrite history Book Review
Tuesday February 14, 2012 08:00 pm EST
The two novelists appear at the Hammonds House on Feb. 21
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Book Review - The three most absorbing books of 2011 Book Review
Wednesday December 28, 2011 08:00 am EST
Wyatt Williams lists his most compelling reads of the year
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Book Review - John Jeremiah Sullivan sees the world anew in Pulphead Book Review
Monday December 5, 2011 02:00 pm EST
The essayist explores America through his generous lens
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Book Review: Circle of Animals Book Review
Friday December 2, 2011 12:02 pm EST
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- Ai Weiwei with zodiac head of a dog in 2010.
“They're just like a toilet seat, or anything else,” says artist Ai Weiwei about the zodiac heads from the fountain of the Yuanming Yuan. It's an idealistic sentiment: the original heads, taken from the palace outside of Beijing in 1860 during the Second Opium War, have become powerful...
| more...Book Review - Blake Butler builds something out of Nothing Book Review
Tuesday October 11, 2011 04:00 pm EDT
The Atlanta author works his unresolved memories into an insomniac's rabbit hole
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Book Review - What comes after black? Book Review
Monday September 26, 2011 12:00 pm EDT
Cultural critic and author Toure explores the concept of post-Blackness in his new book
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Book Review - Ian Bogost reveals How to Do Things With Videogames Book Review
Tuesday August 9, 2011 05:00 am EDT
Georgia Tech professor's new books expand the playing field for video games
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Book Review: Doug Aitken's "Black Mirror" Book Review
Wednesday August 3, 2011 11:48 am EDT
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- Actress Chloë Sevigny is featured in Doug Aitken's "Black Mirror."
Chloë Sevigny spent her summer performing in a somber art installation alongside pole strippers and tap dancers on a flat-bottomed barge cruising at sunset off the Greek island of Hydra. This sounds like it could be one of the gags from a recent series of YouTube videos...
| more...Book Review: Tiny Terror by William Todd Schultz Book Review
Tuesday August 2, 2011 10:07 am EDT
What you make of the new book Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers will depend a great deal on what you make of the term “psychobiography.” If you bristle a bit, I think your instincts are correct.
A “psychobiography,” the author explains in the introduction, zeroes in on the why. The why in conventional biographies is touched upon but typically undernourished, he...
| more...Book Review: Savage Beauty Book Review
Friday May 27, 2011 12:23 pm EDT
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- "There is no way back for me now." —Alexander McQueen
Lewis Carroll's Alice—who couldn't see the use of books without pictures or conversations—probably would have dug the new book Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton. Not only is it dominated by pictures and conversations, but the images...
| more...Book Review - Paging Of Montreal Book Review
Tuesday May 17, 2011 04:00 am EDT
What's Weird? chronicles the Athens band's idiosyncratic look
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Book Review - Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer carves up Disneyfied classic Book Review
Tuesday November 30, 2010 09:00 am EST
Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins' trilogy transcends vampire shtick
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Book Review - David Sedaris does fables his way Book Review
Tuesday October 5, 2010 04:04 am EDT
Sedaris' take on beasts of burden in Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary proves hilarious
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Book Review - Chuck Klosterman's unusual place in the literary world Book Review
Monday October 4, 2010 08:00 am EDT
Pop culture philosopher visits SCAD Oct. 7
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