ATL Bookmarks: Collin Kelly January 31 2012
>> Birmingham-based author Gin Phillips speaks at SCAD’s Ivy Hall tonight about her new novel, Come In and Cover Me. The book was recently chosen for the Oprah.com book of the week and lit mag Ploughshares writes that the book hits “with several affecting wallops that linger, long, in the bone.” The reading tonight begins at 6:30.
>> Local lit blog Kill Your Darlings ATL has released a fairly comprehensive calendar for literary events in Atlanta in February.
>> Atlanta’s Joshilyn jackson made it into the Atlantic’s 15 most anticipated books of 2012 with A Grown Up Kind of Pretty. In a review for the AJC, Gina Webb writes that the novel “would leave you brokenhearted if you could stop laughing long enough. But in a Joshilyn Jackson book, that will never happen.”
>> Collin Kelly reads from his new novel, Remain in Light, tonight at the Georgia Center for the Book. Remain in Light has been nominated for the 2012 Townsend Prize.