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A Summer Reading List for 2012new
New books from Richard Ford, Padgett Powell, Jess Walter, and others round out these beach read picks.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
05-15-2012 |
Books
Kevin Young's inner poet and professor wrestle in The Grey Albumnew
The Emory professor takes on the breadth of African-American culture in his ambitious nonfiction work.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
03-07-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: kevin young, the grey album
The Three Most Absorbing Books of 2011new
Wyatt Williams lists his most compelling reads of the year.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
12-28-2011 |
Books
John Jeremiah Sullivan sees the world anew in Pulpheadnew
The essayist explores America through his generous lens
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
12-05-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead
What Comes After Black?new
Cultural critic and author Touré explores the concept of post-blackness in his new book.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
09-26-2011 |
Nonfiction
After 20 years, Atlanta's Kevin Young Publishes the Epic Ardencynew
Young's book of poems explores America through the voices of a slave ship Amistad's rebels.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
02-14-2011 |
Books
What Happened After MLK Died?new
Rebecca Burns examines the week following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in her new book, Burial for a King.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-17-2011 |
Books
Tags: Burial for a King
Chuck Klosterman's Unusual Place in the Literary Worldnew
Chuck Klosterman occupies an unusual place in the literary world. His popular essays are neither purely journalistic nor academic nor critical.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
10-12-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chuck Klosterman
'The Eastern Stars': Like Baseball For Sugarnew
In his new book The Eastern Stars, author Mark Kurlansky sets out to explain how baseball became as important as sugar in the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
04-27-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Mark Kurlansky, The Eastern Stars
Chang-Rae Lee Hits Operatic Notes in 'The Surrendered'new
Epic, ambitious and expansive are the sort of words that tempt use when describing The Surrendered.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
04-13-2010 |
Fiction
Tags: Chang-rae Lee, The Surrendered
Thomas Mullen Breathes Life into 'The Firefly Brothers'new
"It all began when they died." So begins The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Decatur resident Thomas Mullen's new book about a pair of Depression-era bank robbers who have a little problem with dying.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
02-09-2010 |
Fiction
Jamie Iredell Bends His Prose Poems Into a Novelistic Arcnew
The narrator of Jamie Iredell's Prose. Poems. A Novel. is named Larry, but no one ever calls him that. His co-worker Sharon calls him a "fucking son of a bitch" – a more fitting moniker despite its lack of brevity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-19-2010 |
Fiction
Jayne Anne Phillips Summons Faulkner in 'Lark & Termite'new
On July 26, 1950, Corp. Robert Leavitt is leading a frenzied retreat in rural Korea. On July 26, 1959, his orphaned son Termite is sitting under a tree in West Virginia waiting for a rainstorm. Inside the house, Termite's half-sister Lark is baking him a birthday cake.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-12-2010 |
Fiction
Anthology Looks Back at the Year in Atlanta Artnew
FORM: artistic independence, an annual publication now in its second year, selects submissions from artists who live within 100 miles of Atlanta and binds them together in a big, hardbound book. Williams-England, a nonprofit design firm based out of WonderRoot Studio, has done an admirable job designing the volume.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-12-2010 |
Nonfiction
A Biography of Ayn Rand Examines Her Intellectual Legacynew
Jennifer Burns had access to Rand’s journals, letters and private papers. She’s put that access to good use in Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, a vivid, intellectual portrait of the woman born as Alisa Rosenbaum in 1905.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-12-2010 |
Nonfiction
