DeKalb County Public Library

James Dickey is one of America’s most distinguished poets. Collected in one volume for the first time, The Complete Poems of James Dickey is an authoritative edition of all 331 of his poems. It is edited by Ward Briggs, Carolina Distinguished P

Jasper Fforde

Apr 19th, 2013 32s

International bestselling author Jasper Fforde visited on October 5, 2012 with a new literary thriller, The Woman Who Died a Lot. Fforde’s books skillfully and playfully combine doses of reality with plenty of fantasy and sci-fi, and they hav

Ayana Mathis

Apr 5th, 2013 33s

Ayana Mathis is a distinctive and acclaimed new voice in fiction. Her new novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, is the latest Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection. Beginning in the 1920s in Georgia, it tells the story of the Great Migration of African A

Ron Rash and Michel Stone

Mar 21st, 2013 38s

One of our finest and most popular writers, Ron Rash, returned to us with a powerful new novel, The Cove. He was joined by a close friend and talented young writer, Michel Stone, whose first novel The Iguana Tree is drawing high praise around t

Tayari Jones

Mar 1st, 2013 33s

Atlanta’s own Tayari Jones visited us on June 8, 2011 with her acclaimed new novel, Silver Sparrow. Set in an Atlanta middle class neighborhood in the 1980s, it is the mesmerizing story of a bigamist, his deceptions and the fate of a pair of te

Cory Doctorow

Feb 22nd, 2013 49s

Known for his work as the co-editor of BoingBoing.net, the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder of the UK Open Rights Group, Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, technology activist, and blogger

David Bottoms

Feb 15th, 2013 42s

Georgia’s Poet Laureate, David Bottoms, joined us with a new collection, We Almost Disappear, that affirms his status among the front rank of poets. Critics are calling the new title his “most personal and heartbreaking book” with its poems fir

Mirabai Starr

Feb 8th, 2013 34s

Mirabai Starr is an adjunct professor of philosophy and world religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos. She has lived at the Lama Foundation, an international spiritual community, that studies the diverse paths of religion, from Buddhism

Melissa Fay Greene

Jan 25th, 2013 35s

Atlanta’s prize-winning author Melissa Fay Greene has written a new book, No Biking in the House without a Helmet, a joyous account of a great, loving, complicated and ever-expanding family — her own! The story behind the book is as simple one:

Anne and Sam Lamott

Jan 18th, 2013 31s

Prize-winning novelist Anne Lamott, the author of more than a dozen bestselling books, pays us a visit with a surprising and delightful new nonfiction work, Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son. It is a vibrant, sweet and oft

Joshilyn Jackson

Jan 4th, 2013 27s

2010 was a good year for Joshilyn Jackson. She was a finalist for the Townsend Award for Fiction, and her wonderful novel The Girl Who Stopped Swimming was announced as one of the Center for the Book’s 2010 “25 Books All Georgians Should Read.”

Jane Mendelssohn

Dec 28th, 2012 21s

Jane Mendelssohn author of The New York Times’ best-selling novel I Was Amelia Earhart, visits us with a memorable, original new book, American Music. It’s a luminous love story centering on Milo, a severely wounded Iraq war veteran, and Honor,

Dr. Keith Gilyard

Sep 7th, 2012 32s

Dr. Keith Gilyard is one of America’s most highly regarded scholars of African American writers. In this author talk, he discussed his new book, the first major biography of an important native Georgia author, John Oliver Killens: A Life of Bl

Jean Kwok

Aug 28th, 2012 32s

The publication of Jean Kwok’s debut novel, Girl in Translation, is a literary event with a remarkable story about it. It is an affecting story of a girl who goes from a sweatshop to the Ivy League. Mirroring this novel’s tale is the real story

Maryn McKenna

Jul 25th, 2012 35s

Maryn McKenna is the prize-winning former science writer for theAJC who won awards for her coverage of the CDC. She returns to the Library with a frightening but true new book, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA. MRSA is a terrifying pathogen

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