ATL Bookmarks: Chattahoochee Review February 08 2012
Notes and links about Atlanta’s authors and books
- JODY FAUSETT
- Jody Fausett’s photography adorns the cover of the latest Chattahoochee Review
>> After a brief lapse, venerable literary magazine The Chattahoochee Review is back and under new editorship. The latest Southern lit-themed issue, featuring an essay by William Gay, interview with Joshilyn Jackson, photographs by Jody Fausett, fiction by John Holmon, J.A. Taylor, Hannah Pittard, and many other charming things, is worth tracking down. Look for occasional missives from their blog, The Hooch.
>> Phillip Rafshoon, founder of the now closed Outwrite Bookstore, blogged about his experiences as a LGBT bookstore owner for CNN.
>> A Cappella Books is now open in their new location at 208 Haralson Ave. at Dekalb.
>> Padgett Powell and Ellen Bryant Voigt speak at GSU tomorrow night. Wondering if you should attend? Consider this excerpt from Powell’s The Interrogative Mood and ask yourself, “Why would I not attend?”
>> GPC and continent. are holding a discussion and reading with Blake Butler and translator Jan Steyn on Mon., Feb. 13. Steyn, who recently relocated to Atlanta, is the translator of Eduoard Leve’s final work, Suicide. Maybe you caught Zadie Smith’s enthusiastic review of it Harper’s last year?