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Georgia Center for the Book

Founded in 1920, the Georgia Center for the Book, based at the DeKalb County Public Library, is the statewide affiliate of the Library of Congress with a mission of serving libraries, literacy and literature. We sponsor two popular literary competitions for students, develop and encourage programming for and other literary-related organizations and sponsor some 90 literary programs each year, bringing more than 125 authors to metro Atlanta and the state for free public events.

http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org

  • Glenda Gilmore: Defying Dixie

    Tue, Mar 18, 2008
    Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, a native North Carolinian and the C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, discusses her revealing new book, *Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950*, which looks at forgotten black and white southern activists, whose courageous work in the face of Jim Crow segregation laws, helped lay the foundation for the later civil rights movement.
    Civil Rights Movement Series
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Steven T. Wax: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror

    Wed, Oct 22, 2008
    Public defender and author Steven T. Wax talks about his book, *Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror*. He reveals where and how our civil liberties have been eroded and how each of us can make a difference. Wax interweaves the stories of two men that he and his legal team represented: Brandon Mayfield, an American-born, small town lawyer and family man, arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid train station bombings after a fingerprint was incorrectly traced back to him by the FBI; and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator taken from his apartment to a Pakistani prison and then flown in chains to the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Joshilyn Jackson: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

    Wed, Nov 5, 2008
    Author and Georgia Perimeter College Writer-in-Residence Joshilyn Jackson talks about her latest, *The Girl Who Stopped Swimming*. Jackson is also the author of *Gods in Alabama* and *Between Georgia*. Jack Riggs, also a writer-in-residence at Georgia Perimeter College, interviews Jackson about her writing and techniques.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • George C. Herring: From Colony to Superpower

    Tue, Oct 28, 2008
    Award-winning historian and author George C. Herring gives an overview of American diplomacy, as described in his new book, *From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776*. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from 13 disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. This book is the latest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Ron Rash: Serena

    Thu, Oct 30, 2008
    Ron Rash, the Appalachian storyteller, discusses his fourth novel, *Serena*, a tale of of violence and beauty, love and honor. The story unfolds in 1929 and focuses on a beautiful and ruthless wife, Serena.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Jacqueline Winspear: Messenger of Truth

    Fri, Mar 14, 2008
    Jacqueline Winspear, one of the country’s most popular and most honored mystery authors, discusses her latest book, *Messenger of Truth*. It is a novel featuring Maisie Dobbs, Winspear’s psychological investigator, enmeshed in a whodunit tale. Winspear’s books, *Maisie Dobbs*, *Birds of a Feather*, and *Pardonable Lies* have won Agatha, Alex and Macavity Awards and been nominated for an Edgar for best novel.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book
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    Russell Shorto: Descartes' Bones

    Tue, Oct 21, 2008
    Russell Shorto, author of *Decartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason*, discusses the new intellectual detective story. It examines how the skull of the 17th century French thinker became separated from the rest of his remains and where it is today. Shorto is also the author of *The Island at the Center of the World*.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Michael Largo: Genius and Heroin

    Mon, Oct 20, 2008
    Author Michael Largo discusses his new book, *Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages*, which describes how the famously talented mix their genius with an urge for self-destructiveness. Largo's other work, *The Portable Obituary*, chronicles how the rich and famous died.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Annette Gordon-Reed: Hemingses of Monticello

    Mon, Sep 29, 2008
    Professor of law at New York Law School and professor of history at Rutgers University, Annette Gordon-Reed talks about her new book, *The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family*. In her new work, Gordon-Reed tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to the third US president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, but also their children and Hemings' siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Dexter Filkins: The Forever War

    Thu, Oct 2, 2008
    War correspondent Dexter Filkins discusses his new book, *The Forever War*. It is a collection of the author's work for *The New York Times*, covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 1998.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book
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