ATL Bookmarks: The Passion of a Good Man December 05 2011

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>> The annual Atlanta Press Club Holiday Author Party happens tonight, Mon., Dec. 5, at 200 Peachtree Street. The cover charge is a steep $40 for non-members, but you'll be hard pressed to find another party with this many local scribes in attendance. Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, Andisheh Nouraee, Mary Kay Andrews, Rebecca Burns, Blake Butler, and quite a few more will be signing copies of their books. More details.

>> One of the more innovative poetry projects to come out of Atlanta in recent years is now hitting the streets in NYC. John Morse's Roadside Haiku project, which began as a few hundred signs put up in collaboration with Flux Projects, got picked up by NYC's Department of Transportation, earning coverage from NPR, GalleyCat, and plenty of other outlets.

>> Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is looking to be adapted for film. A screenplay has been written by Benedict Fitzgerald, the guy wrote the screenplay for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Catholic cred, I guess? Okay, so it's also the same guy who wrote the screenplay for John Huston's 1979 adaptation of Wise Blood, who also happens to be the child of Sally and Robert Fitzgerald. Oh, and O'Connor used to babysit him. So, I guess that qualifies him.

>> Local poet and musician Tom Cheshire is bringing together a few of his favorite local writers on Wed., Dec. 7 at the Star Bar. Paste editor and novelist Charles McNair, Jamie Iredell, Matt Debenedictus, and a few others will be on hand to share words and tunes. Vouched will be selling books. More details.

>> The True Story! reading series returns this Fri., Dec. 9, to Kavarna in Decatur with John Jeremiah Sullivan, CL's own Thomas Wheatley, and Atlanta magazine's Justin Heckert. Sullivan's Pulphead is hands down the best collection of magazine writing to be published this year. The New York Times and the AJC's Gina Webb happen to agree.