http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/home.aspxStories from Teresa Weaver and beyonden-usCopyright 2010, AtlantaMagazine-NAMon, 30 Aug 2010 17:11:30 GMThttp://emmisinteractive.comNatasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey’s brave new book, Beyond Katrina (UGA Press, $22.95), is modeled on Robert Penn Warren’s Segregation. Warren had revisited his native South not long after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling—a figurative storm that changed the nation’s cultural landscape as dramatically as the very literal Hurricane Katrina altered the coast of Mississ...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1271664Teresa Weaverhttp://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1271664Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:11:30 GMTThe film version of The Help began production in July—in and around Greenwood, Mississippi—as the book itself passed an extraordinary milestone: one solid year on the New York Times bestseller list. It was one of the biggest success stories of 2009 and well into 2010, with more than 2 million books in print.   Kathryn Stockett, who lives in Midtown Atlanta with her husband and dau...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1271657Teresa Weaverhttp://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1271657Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:50:43 GMTDecatur Book Festival This labor day weekend, the AJC Decatur Book Festival will celebrate its fifth anniversary. This precocious, audacious five-year-old has become one of the signature literary events in the country, attracting some 70,000 people to downtown Decatur. Keynote speakers have included heavy hitters such as Sir Harold Evans, Charles Frazier, Arianna Huffington, and this year’s ...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1257028Teresa Weaverhttp://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1257028Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:38:10 GMTMelanie Sumner A cavernous sense of loss permeates The Ghost of Milagro Creek (Algonquin Books, $13.95 paperback), a tragic story of love and heartbreak and consequences set in the barrio of Taos, New Mexico. The title may refer to the incandescent spirit of Ignacia Vigil Romero—a Native American medicine woman (or witch?) who wields power and influence even from the grave—but another ...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1247229Teresa Weaverhttp://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1247229Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:58:08 GMTJoshilyn Jackson “It was an airport gypsy who told me that I had to kill my husband.” Joshilyn Jackson catapults into her fourth novel, Backseat Saints (Grand Central Publishing, $24.99), in typical all-out style, leaving more subtle approaches for less self-assured writers. As in her previous novels—Gods in Alabama, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, and Between, Georgia—Jackson practical...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1235193Teresa Weaverhttp://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1235193Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:06:13 GMTEmily Giffin From her attic home office in Brookhaven, Emily Giffin has written a string of bestselling, candy-colored novels about love, marriage, and all the inconvenient drama that often accompanies both. In her four books—Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Baby Proof, and Love the One You’re With—Giffin has explored such dilemmas as what happens when a husband wants a baby and the wife ...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1222758http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1222758Fri, 28 May 2010 21:32:16 GMTA native of Baltimore who grew up near Chicago, Emily Giffin was a very unhappy litigation attorney in New York before moving to London in 2001 to pursue full-time writing. Two years later, she moved to Atlanta with her husband, when she was pregnant with twin princes, Edward and George. In 2007, the family grew to include a baby girl, Harriet. St. Martin’s Press is printing 1.3 million copies...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1225207Teresa Weaverhttp://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1225207Mon, 03 May 2010 15:02:40 GMTHolly LeCraw Granted, a plot synopsis of The Swimming Pool (Doubleday, $25.95) sounds like the worst melodrama ever written. Beautiful Marcella is reeling from the tragic death of her lover, Cecil McClatchey—whom she met while he was summering at Cape Cod—shortly after his wife, Betsy, is murdered in the McClatcheys’ Atlanta home. Cecil’s daughter, Callie, is losing her tenuous grasp o...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1213074Teresa Weaverhttp://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1213074Fri, 07 May 2010 00:34:23 GMTLynn Cullen Smyrna’s Lynn Cullen, a successful writer of books for young readers, makes a stunning leap into historical fiction for adults with The Creation of Eve (Putnam, $25.95). Cullen had set out to write a novel about Spain’s King Philip II but got distracted by a remarkable real-life character in his court: Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532–1625), a gifted protégé of...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1200319Teresa Weaverhttp://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1200319Fri, 07 May 2010 00:34:37 GMTDaniel Black Daniel Black’s third novel—after They Tell Me of a Home and The Sacred Place—is a complex, imaginative story of one unforgettable black family in mid-twentieth-century Arkansas. Perfect Peace (St. Martin’s Press, $25.99) begins when Emma Jean Peace delivers her seventh son and makes the unfathomable decision to raise the child—named Perfect—as a girl. Perfect is the adored...http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1189095http://www.atlantamagazine.com/channels/books/story.aspx?ID=1189095Fri, 07 May 2010 00:34:51 GMT