ATL Bookmarks: The Starboard Sea March 20 2012
Agnes Scott professor Amber Dermott gets high praise, a party for Kevin Young’s new book, and more
>> ArtsATL interviews Agnes Scott professor Amber Dermont about her new novel The Starboard Sea. The novel has been getting some serious praise, not the least of which includes two reviews from the New York Times. Janet Maslin says, “It is a rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns.”
>> A Cappella Books is holding a Ballroom Book Bash on Wednesday to celebrate the release of Kevin Young’s new non-fiction work, The Grey Album. Young will be on hand to sign copies in the Highland Inn Ballroom and hopefully someone will playing cuts from the many musical works referenced in the book.
>> Empire State South owner and Five and Ten chef Hugh Acheson got a nod from the James Beard Foundation for last year’s cookbook, A New Turn in the South.
>> CL’s Vene Franco spoke with Anne Lamott about her collaborative new memoir with her son, Some Assembly Required. Of working with her son, Lamott says, “I would just beg and nag, nag and bribe, and threats, underline threats. It worked when he was a little boy. It works somewhat less effectively now.”