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Arts & Culture
Summer Reading
Fiction, poetry, young adult, nonfiction — and a little music
By Collin Kelley
I f you’re looking for something to read on your beach trip, or just to curl up by
the air conditioner as the humidity increases, there are plenty of new books by
Atlanta authors to keep you busy all summer long. And we’ve included a couple of
soundtracks to go along with it. Read on!
You and I and Someone Else
By Anna Schachner
religious faith that some universities have
in the promise of technological advances.
(University of New England Press)
Frannie Lewis has a
lot of bad history with
men, starting with the
first one she ever met.
She’s watched her aloof
father disappear in the
summers to work with
a traveling carnival, seen
her mother grow ever
more suspicious and
resentful. All her life,
Frannie has kept their secrets and told their
stories. Now thirty-six, she remains a pawn
in their longstanding marital chess game
— and at this point, it has devolved into a
grudge match. (Mercer University Press)
SomzONE ELSE
Disrupt This! MOOCSandthe
Promises of Technology
By Karen Head
Atlanta poet
and Georgia Tech
professor Karen Plead
describes her experience
teaching a Massive
Open Online Course
(MOOC) and the
pressure on professors,
especially those in the
humanities, to embrace
new technologies in the
STEM era. And yet, as she argues, MOOCs
are just the latest example of the near-
The Almost Sisters
By Joshilyn Jackson
Superheroes have
always been Leia Birch
Briggs’ weakness. One
tequila-soaked night at
a comics convention,
the usually level-headed
graphic novelist is
swept off her barstool
by a handsome and
anonymous Batman.
It turns out the caped
crusader has left her with more than just a
nice, fuzzy memory. At 38, she’s having a
baby while her family life implodes around
her. (William Morrow)
Orphan Island
Nine young children
live on a utopian island,
where the only change
is that on one day each
year a boat arrives to
carry the eldest child
away and deliver a
new child. The story
follows Jinny, the eldest,
in the year before the
boat arrives to take her
away from the only home she’s ever known.
(Walden Pond Press)
A Man’s World: Portraits
By Steve Oney
A Man’s World
is a collection of 20
profiles of fascinating
men by author and
magazine writer Steve
Oney written over
a 40-year period for
publications including
Esquire, Premiere, GQ,
Time, Los Angeles and
The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution. Subjects include FFarrison
Ford, Robert Penn Warren, FFerschel Walker,
Nick Nolte, FFarry Dean Stanton and John
Portman. (Mercer University Press)
A Man’s
World
PORTRAITS
A Gallery of Fighters, Creators,
Actors, and Desperadoes
Steve Oney
Mountain Mother Poems
By Alice Teeter
In 25 connected
poems, Mountain
Mother Poems tells the
mythical and magical
story of a remarkable
mother who chases
eagles by “flapping her
apron,” surrounded
by the beautifully
realized landscape of a
mountain, and leading
us toward an understanding of forgiveness.
(Finishing
Line Press)
Atlanta Noir
Edited byTayari Jones
Fourteen
writers explore the
complexities of Atlanta’s
neighborhoods with
Mountain
Mother Poems
Alice Teeter
contributions by Tananarive Due, Kenji
Jasper, Dallas FFudgens, Jim Grimsley,
Brandon Massey, Jennifer FFarlow, Sheri
Joseph, Alesia Parker, Gillian Royes, Anthony
Grooms, John FFolman, Daniel Black, David
James Poissant and Jones herself. (Akashic
Books)
Flight Path: A Search
for Roots Beneath the
World’s Busiest Airport
By Hannah Palmer
In the months
leading up to the
birth of her first child,
FFannah Palmer
discovers that all three
of her childhood houses
have been wiped out
by the expansion of
Atlanta’s FFartsfield-
Jackson International
Airport. FFaving uprooted herself from a
promising career in publishing in her
adopted Brooklyn, Palmer embarks on
a quest to determine the fate of her lost
homes—and of a community that
has been erased by unchecked Southern
progress. (Flub City Press)
The Hidden
Light of
Northern Fires
By Daren Wang
When escaped slave,
Joe Bell, collapses in
her father’s barn, Mary
Willis must ward off
Confederate guerillas and spies, Joe’s vengeful
owner and even her own brother to help the
handsome fugitive cross to freedom. (Thomas
Dunne Books)
Now Hear This
Don't Go Back To Sleep
Cnnnc a nri Selected Poems
From Tupelo to Memphis
By Kodac Harrison
The Decatur poet and musician’s new
compilation of recordings from 1984 to
2004 with his bands Luckie Street and
The Blue Groove. Tracks include favorites
like “Young Boy Blues,” “I Like It,”
“Temporary Thing” and the title track.
Don’t Go Back to Sleep
By Franklin Abbott
This double disc features 44
of Abbott’s poems and 14 songs
featuring lyrics derived from the
works of Shakespeare, Blake and
fellow poets James Broughton,
Bob Vance, Ann Le Marquad and
Coleman Barks’ translations
of Rumi.ld
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