Forum Network

Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas

Funding provided by:

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

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
Rick Atkinson: The Day of Battle

Mon, Sep 22, 2008

Pulitzer Prize-winning Rick Atkinson presents his latest book, *The Day of Battle*. He follows the strengthening American and British armies of WWII, as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome.

Forum Network

Partner:

Georgia Center for the Book
Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

Thomas Frank, *The New York Times* bestselling author of *What's the Matter with Kansas?*, discusses his new book, *The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule*. The author argues that the same politicians who laughed at the mere idea of effective government have themselves created a government in which incompetence is the rule.

Forum Network

Partner:

Georgia Center for the Book
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
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
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
Jim Grimsley: Forgiveness and The Last Green Tree

Mon, May 7, 2007

Jim Grimsley discusses two of his works, Forgiveness and The Last Green Tree. Forgiveness is a black, comedic tale of a bankrupt accounting executive who dreams of achieving stardom by murdering his wife. Forgiveness is a morality tale that questions modern preoccupations with fame, the media, and luxury goods. The Last Green Tree is Grimsley's sequel to the award winning The Ordinary, and is a science fiction chronicle of the rise of a war between epic forces.

Forum Network

Partner:

Georgia Center for the Book
Supreme Discomfort: Clarence Thomas' Divided Soul

Thu, May 3, 2007

Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher discusses their book, *Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas*. Georgia Center for the Book presents two Washington Post reporters who provide an account of the life of Savannah-born Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Their book examines the irony of the nation's second African-American Justice finding himself a pariah in most of the black community.

Forum Network

Partner:

Georgia Center for the Book