The Shelf: Holly LeCraw
Holly LeCraw Granted, a plot synopsis of The Swimming Pool (Doubleday, $25.95) sounds like the worst melodrama ever written. Beautiful Marc
4 offbeat ways to celebrate July 4 in Atlanta
Mix up your holiday traditions with doughnuts, dolphins, and roller coasters.
Dad’s Garage Cofounder Is Back
Director Sean Daniels is taking a break from the national stage to touch base with his peeps. “In American theater, your constant job is to find your people, the ones who get your work and speak your language. I have a lot of those people here,” says the former Atlantan and Dad’s Garage cofounder. Daniels is directing a couple of productions for Lawrenceville’s Aurora Theatre, which kicks off its 2012–2013 season this month.
The source of violent crime in Atlanta isn’t mysterious: It’s desperation, born by inequality.
We just need to be willing to see it, writes George Chidi.
The Bakery—an inclusive, experimental arts center—is but a moment in time. And that’s okay.
In October 2017, Willow Goldstein and her mother Olive Hagemeier opened the doors of the Bakery, what would become a constantly churning complex of spaces popular with young, queer, and creative Atlantans that have hosted large-scale puppet shows, space-rock operas, escape rooms, and so much more.
Perfection pays when you’re detailing cars—or Air Force One
"I started detailing cars full-time in 2003, but I got tired after a few years and decided to stop," says Yasir Waqaar. "As soon as I quit, I had old clients begging me to come back to work on their cars. So I realized detailing must be my calling."
Looking for new reads? Check out this year’s Townsend Prize finalists.
Every other year, the Georgia Center for the Book, the Atlanta Writer’s Club, the DeKalb Library Foundation, and Georgia State University Perimeter College’s literary journal the Chattahoochee Review select 10 finalists from works of fiction by Georgia writers.
Welcome to Ratlanta: What to know about the rodents next door
Have you met your neighbors? Their names are Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus, and metro Atlanta is teeming with them.
Marla Lawson Put a Face to Crime
Marla Lawson’s artwork ranks among the most realistic and recognizable in the country, but no sane collector wants to hang her masterpieces above the mantel. Blame her unwitting models, who have varied in size, coloring, tattoos, and scars but generally share the same gleam in the eye—that look of desperate, crazy malice, with pupils unnaturally dilated or constricted, depending on the drugs.
Online Extra: Emily Giffin Q&A
A 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 of her fifth novel—a huge number for fiction by anyone not named John Grisham. And
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