The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, located on Georgia Tech’s campus in Atlanta, is sponsoring a series of three FREE lectures beginning NEXT TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2021.
Information about the three-part lecture series, and a link to register, is here.
Hat-tip to Wynne, with the Friends of the Alphabet, Atlanta’s Calligraphy Guild
The 8th annual Decatur Book Festival, one of the largest in the United States, is happening this weekend. (The photo depicts the festival’s mascot, Bookzilla.)
One of the best things about the DBF is that you need park your car only once – or not at all, if you use MARTA to get to downtown Decatur and back; another Good Thing is that admission to all festival events is free.
The festival takes place all weekend long, so take a look at the festival’s website for a complete listing of festival events.
And don’t forget to make a pit stop at the book sale on the lawn in front of the main library in Decatur, starting at 9am on Saturday, August 31st.
The Midtown Book Club, sponsored by the Midtown Neighbors Association, was established in 2006.
Midtown resident Sherri Caldwell’s description of the club is here, and a list of the books the club has read – with each title rated from one to five stars – is here.
The club meets the second Wednesday of each month from 8-10pm upstairs at the Barnes & Noble bookstore at 5th Street and Spring Street, and welcomes new members.
You can find out more about the club at its Yahoo Groups page here.
Atlanta’s Creating Loafing examines various aspects of the city’s burgeoning activities for writers and readers.
One of the factoids embedded in CL’s series of features is the existence of an online calendar of local literary events that was previously unknown to us: the calendar maintained by Kill Your Darlings ATL. We’ve herewith added it to the other calendars listed on the right-hand side of the blog you are reading.
The 7th annual Decatur Book Festival is returning, as usual, over Labor Day Weekend (August 31st – September 2nd).
If you haven’t already made plans to be out of town that weekend, you might want to check the Festival’s schedule and plot yourself an itinerary through this always-excellent series of events.
…takes place annually on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
The Los Angeles Times has details about some of the writers who will be featured this year.
Happily, like the local annual Decatur Book Festival over Labor Day weekend, the National Book Festival scheduled for September 22-23, is free and open to the public.
Unhappily, Washington DC isn’t exactly “local” for Atlanta booklovers.
Still, if you’re going to be in the DC area in September, or could plan to be there then, you might consider coordinating your plans to be able to take in the festival. And if you’re going to be in the New York City area the weekend of September 23-25, maybe you can pop in at the Brooklyn Book Festival?
There’s an official National Book Festival website, of course.
Booklovers who missed this month’s annual Savannah Book Festival might want to put the March 2013 festival on their calendars.
Publishers Weekly’s write-up of the 2012 festival, which featured (among others, of course) Pat Conroy, Stephen King, Brad Thor, and Walter Isaacson, is here.
The festival’s website has plenty of photos and transcripts of some of the authors’ speeches.
Two dozen fiction bestseller authors whose books have been recently added to collections of the Atlanta-Public Library System will be appearing this coming weekend at the Decatur Book Festival:
If one of these authors is among your favorites, this weekend you can – for free and in person! – hear them read and/or be interviewed.
The festival’s full line-up of authors is here, and the full schedule is here.
Local booklovers who haven’t already made plans to be out of town during Labor Day weekend can click here for the Festival’s website, which contains all the information you need to plan a rewarding – and free! – weekend in pedestrian-friendly Decatur, Georgia.
This year’s festival kick-off event begins at 7:30pm at Charis Books & More in Little Five Points.
The entire festival is free and open to the public.
Details about the festival, which continues through Saturday evening, are at the festival’s website.
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