With the Decatur Book Festival just days away, Atlanta’s literary community is buzzing. Local authors are front and center at this year’s DBF, with about one-third of the author lineup from Georgia, a...

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Toni Morrison's 1970 novel "The Bluest Eye" is the 30th book removed from Cobb County school libraries since 2024.

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Employees are reportedly being asked if they left and if they had permission to do so.

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Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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July is here and with it comes peak vacation reading season. If your flight and hotel are set but you’re still on the hunt for the right book for your leisure time, look no further. This month sees th...

As the demolition of our longtime home at Blue Heron Nature Preserve approached, Amphibian Foundation faced one of the most complex biologic

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We have successfully completed the relocation of more than 1,000 amphibians and 100 reptiles!

The Decatur Book Festival’s last half-decade has been eventful, seeing the once-sprawling event and its coffers greatly diminished by the pandemic. Canceled in 2023, the Festival was relaunched the ne...

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?

At the age of 25, Flannery O’Connor collapsed on a train platform in Macon, Georgia. She’d been on her way from Connecticut to visit her mother, Regina, at Andalusia, the family dairy farm outside of ...

Students aren't taking book bans and the defunding of their school library quietly in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. Here's what they're doing.

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✦ Summer Evans ✦ Let’s Go Dancing ✦ Commonplaces ✦ American Sublime ✦ Jessi Kirtley ✦ Best Bets ✦   Welcome to The ATL Arts Collective, powered by ArtsATL. This is your home for stories from Atlanta’s...

In college at the University of Maryland, Atlanta author Josh Russell used to make photocopies of poems that he read in literary magazines at the library. He couldn’t afford to buy everything he read,...

From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward    signs painted Peaches . From…

“Then the full / moon rose / & filled the / windows.”

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Last year, Atlanta author Kylie Lee Baker released her first horror novel, Bat Eater and other Names for Cora Zeng, to wide acclaim. Nobody would have blamed her for taking a year off, but, luckily for horror fans, she didn’t. Japanese Gothic (Hanover Square Press), her newest effort in the…

Walking into East Atlanta’s Bookish, you’d never guess it had been closed for flooding one week earlier. The shelves were packed with books, colorful streamers hung from the ceiling and owner Kendra L...

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A poem by Ada Limón

Lisa MacKinney, director of the Hall County Library, was a sensitive kid -- so sensitive, in fact, that when the titular spider died in Charlotte’s Web, “They just about had to take me to the hospital...

Lisa MacKinney, director of the Hall County Library, was a sensitive kid -- so sensitive, in fact, that when the titular spider died in Charlotte’s Web, “They just about had to take me to the hospital...

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“Imagine how dull the world would surely be,” says a character in Atlanta author Robert Gwaltney’s Sing Down the Moon (Mercer University Press, March 3), “if we carried our histories about scribbled o...

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Rare book dealer and author Charlene Ball lights up when she talks about going to a rare book fair. “It’s a vast cavernous space, but when the booksellers are set up, it looks like 100-plus bookshops,...