Tag: books

Katharine Wilkinson shows in her forthcoming book, Climate Wayfinding, that rather than treating climate change as an abstract problem, to view it as a communal practice complete with reading group guides and creative exercises designed to help people identify their own roles in a collective response. The May 4 book launch held at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum will include film, poetry, music, and interactive experiences.

Burning Man is celebrating its 40th year of creating community and art in the southwest desert, and local photographer Perry Julien has attended 11 of those years. Since 2014, Julien, who shoots concerts for Atlanta magazine, has been to the festival almost annually as part of a local group (or “theme camp” in Burning Man terms) that cooks for fellow Burners. When he wasn’t helping prep meals, he took his camera around the camp and captured hundreds of thousands of photos. Now, 205 of those photos are showcased in his new book, It Was Better Next Year.

Writer Tom Junod grew up in the long shadow of Big Lou—a dazzling, ruthless womanizer—and spent a decade excavating the myth of his father’s life. His new memoir is a reckoning with sex, power, and the inheritance every son must confront.

Author Tayari Jones has a knack for weaving new threads through the familiar theme of family. That was true of An American Marriage, a bestseller selected for both Oprah’s Book Club and President Barack Obama’s summer reading list in 2018. Jones returns to family with her latest novel, Kin, out this month from Knopf. Jones sat down with Atlanta magazine for a conversation about her latest novel.

A few decades ago, romance novels were stereotyped as bodice rippers with hand-painted covers relegated to a corner of the bookstore. Now multiple romance bookstores have opened across metro Atlanta and fill their shelves for every reader—from sports romance superfans to romantasy (aka romantic fantasy) devotees. Readers of all persuasions will gather in Decatur for the third year of Atlanta’s Love Y’All Romance Book Fest from February 13-15.

The saying goes that there is no manual handed to parents when they leave the hospital on how to take care of their baby. However, any devotee of Atlanta-based Moms on Call would tell you otherwise.

Atlanta eaters and readers had plenty to devour this year, thanks to countless authors who appeared at venues across the city—sharing food and restaurant memories, historical research, kitchen wisdom, drinking lore, and recipes. From Alton Brown to Duane Nutter, here are a few standouts.

Writer and author Felicia Feaster is a former HGTV website editor, where she started 11 years ago as the editor-in-chief of a new gardening website called HGTV Gardens. That experience, combined with her own avid gardening, led her to where she is today: the author of The Gothic Garden: The Mystery, Beauty, and Lore of Dark Gardening, which debuted in November. Here, she explains what the concept is and how she wrote the book.

Steve Nygren’s goal with "Start in Your Own Backyard"—and with Serenbe itself—is to encourage healthier, more connected communities. “Our lifestyle is one of the prime reasons for death in the U.S.,” he says. But he believes that small steps can help people reclaim a sense of place and, with it, a deeper connection to each other.

Pushing Hope, an illustrated memoir, is geared toward young adult readers and highlights the importance of hope and resilience in spite of obstacles. Santana, who now splits his time between New York and Atlanta, shares what he hopes readers will take away from the book and reveals how impactful living in Atlanta has been for his growth.