Inevitable fact: Every single event in Atlanta’s grassroots lit scene will sooner or later see Jayne O’Connor’s name on it. We first saw her at Carapace, or maybe it was Write Club Atlanta, or perhaps one of the HydeAtl events she herself helps coordinate. We’re honestly not sure; what we do know is: the woman [...]
“Before New Mexico was called New Mexico, it was just called Mexico.” True Story Preview: Andisheh Nouraee
The New York Times calls Andisheh Nouraee‘s book Americapedia: Taking the Dumb Out of Freedom ”Jon Stewart’s ‘America’ for the Y.A. set,” which just warms our cockles, because Andisheh’s “Don’t Panic” column in Creative Loafing made him our favorite local political satirist for years, as he skewered dirty dealing and ignorance with a sensibility that betrayed [...]
True Story Preview: Jamie Iredell
True Story #21′s this Friday, and we’ve got a triad of local talent to knock your socks off. The first of these is writer/instructor/force on the reading scene, Jamie Iredell. We first met him sitting on the floor of Beep Beep Gallery at Solar Anus, the cutting-edge reading series he helped found. Then we got [...]
True Story Reading Announced: No More Teachers, Dirty Looks Edition
School’s out! School’s out! And on Friday, June 14th, we’ve got three local firecrackers at Kavarna to celebrate. (Oh, wait. Firecrackers; that’s next month. Nah. Sparklers, that’s all summer long, like lightning bugs and gnats stuck in your Bonne Bell lipgloss and between your teeth, nights careening country roads, windows rolled down, your summer music [...]
True Story Preview: Erin Sroka
We find ourselves wanting to say something like, “Deadpan, wry and observant, Erin Sroka’s writing is just like she is.” This feels a little cheap, but it’s the most accurate way we can think to put it. The truths she arrives at in her writing feel easy and casually-tossed-off, but they will linger in your [...]
“They disappeared, but never before your eyes.” True Story Preview: Thomas Mullen
Thomas Mullen is a novelist of many guises. He’s won all sorts of recognition writing historical fiction, noir, and even something akin to sci-fi. What all his work has in common is an undeniable readableness and sense of adventure. We wonder what he’ll do this Friday at True Story. No matter what it is, we’re [...]
“Iron filings around a magnet that was subsequently removed” True Story Preview: Peter Trachtenberg
Hi there, dear ones. This Friday, we’re looking forward to sitting in a cozy room with friends and hearing true tales. Peter Trachtenberg comes to us all the way from the frozen north for this one, to read from his latest book, Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and People. The book’s about [...]
True Story #20 Readers Announced!
Hiya and happy spring, folks. We’ve got an exciting line-up of rogue writers for Friday, April 19th’s True Story. See ya there. Kavarna at 8:00 pm! Peter TRACHTENBERG’s latest work of nonfiction is Another Insane Devotion (Da Capo, 2012), the story of a search for a missing cat that opens up into a meditation on love [...]
“Love has been real.” True Story Preview: Laura Straub
She’s the vicereine of Vouched Books Atlanta! The sultana of the Squirrel Census! Crackerjack columnist at Creative Loafing. We know alliteration’s for rubes, but we can’t help it when it comes to our third reader this Friday, Laura Straub. It’s Valentine’s Day, and we’re smitten. If Laura Straub were a pie chart, she’d be [...]
“Fish karma could come in handy sometime.” True Story Preview: Brooke Hatfield
They told us Brooke Hatfield was flat-out one of the most hilarious people they knew. They told us she was moving here from DC, and that if we were smart, we would get her off that plane and onto our little Kavarna stage tout suite. Five months later, we hope we’ve proved to Brooke we’re [...]