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The brain-child of writer and artist, Jessi Esparza; former bookseller and author, Kimberly Jones; and author, photographer, and writer, Vania Stoyanova, YATL is a zany, Jimmy Kimmel-esque live talk show for readers and writers of Young Adult literature. Featuring games, interviews and lip-synching, the shenanigan-filled show features Georgia-based, and best-selling authors and exposes readers to the diverse voices in Young Adult literature. Featured guests...

The Georgia Center for the Book and ArtistFirst Radio Network’s The Doug Dahlgren Show are pleased to present the next list of Authors You Should Know! For August host Doug Dahlgren will interview David Butler, Alayne Smith, Michael W. Paul, and Tori Bailey! Be there to hear about these fabulous writers. A brief Q&A session, following the interview, will offer attendees the opportunity to address...

A powerful and haunting novel of a woman’s broken past and the painful choices she must make to keep her family and her home. August 1956. After a night of rage and terror, Anna Nassad wakes to find her abusive husband dead and instinctively hides her bruises and her relief. As the daughter of Syrian immigrants living in segregated Alabama, Anna has never belonged, and...

When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. The resulting blowback played out in the national media, with critics attacking Yancy in every form possible—including death threats—and supporters rallying to...

New York Times bestselling author Delia Owens comes to the Georgia Center for the Book to discuss her debut novel Where the Crawdads Sing. Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman, abandoned at age ten to survive alone in the wild coastal marsh of North Carolina. For years, rumors...