Locks & Radio Waves (All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr)
Anthony Doerr's latest novel captures the experience of World War II in the lives of a blind French girl and an orphaned German soldier. [...]
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A Script for All Citizens (Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine)
Claudia Rankine's eclectic collection Citizen: An American Lyric examines the terrible dehumanizing power of racism in the US. [...]
A Medical Opinion on the Effects of a Writers’ Strike
I turned to Castle the elder. “Sir, how does a man die when he’s deprived of the consolations of literature?” “In one of two ways,” he said, “petrescence of the heart or atrophy of the nervous system.” “Neither one very pleasant, I expect,” I [...]
Best American Poetry + Decatur Book Festival = The Labor Day of Our Dreams
This past weekend society members headed down to the city within the city of Atlanta for the 2012 Decatur Book Festival, one of the largest annual celebrations of readers and writers in the country. And since Atlanta also happened to be hosting DragonCon, suffice it to say there was simply no [...]
Poets! They’re Just Like Us!
Sometimes, the poems are more than you need. Sometimes you just want to know Frank O’Hara’s SAT scores. On days like this we society members like to reach for some of our favorite literary biographies, memoirs and letter collections; books that give us glimpses into the daily lives that [...]
Plagiarisms, etc. (The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem)
Artists and their surrogates who fall into the trap of seeking recompense for every possible second use end up attacking their own best audience members for the crime of exalting and enshrining their work. These nearly microscopic men in hats and coats scurry among an archipelago of desolate street [...]
Bookstore Spotlight: Bart’s Books of Ojai (Ojai, CA)
In a town where it almost never rains, it might seem like curling up with a book is the last way you’d plan to spend your sunny days. But at Bart’s Books in the resort town of Ojai, California, that’s exactly what you’ll get to do. Located at the site of an old hippie [...]
Bookstore Spotlight: The Last Bookstore (Los Angeles, CA)
Most residents of Los Angeles don’t dispute the fact that their downtown neighborhoods boast the most lovely architecture in the city, and our latest Bookstore Spotlight feature, The Last Bookstore, is no exception. Located on the corner of 5th and Spring street, The Last Bookstore is [...]
Bookstore Spotlights: A Cappella Books (Atlanta, GA)
For the academic off-season, Tate Street High Society members are on the move, which can only mean one thing: it’s time to discover some new bookstores! So before embarking for the West Coast, this contributor went to hit up the local bookstore in the Little Five Points neighborhood of [...]
Our President the Poet
In the most recent issue of Vanity Fair, author David Maraniss sheds light on the dark and romantic years Obama spent in New York City following his graduation from Columbia. The piece includes excerpts from letters and diaries of both Barack and his New York girlfriend, Genevieve Cook, whose [...]
