Cheng, began writing SOUTHERN CROSS THE DOG in 2008, while earning his MFA at Hunter College. He drew his inspiration for this story of a group of black, childhood friends set in part against the backdrop of the 1927 Great Flood in Mississippi from the great tradition of country/delta blues music. This debut novel has been praised by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones,...

One of America’s top science journalists, Annalee Newitz, joins us with a program about her intriguing new book, ”Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction.” It’s a brilliantly speculative work of popular science that examines humanity’s success at dodging the bullet of extinction and suggests ways to keep doing it. That would seem to make her talk a pretty important...

We are delighted to welcome Susan Rebecca White, one of Atlanta’s most popular authors, with a celebration of the release of her new novel, ”A Place at the Table.” The doors open at 7:15 p.m., and she’ll appear on stage at 7:30 in conversation with another wonderful Atlanta writer, Susan Puckett. You won’t want to miss this! The new novel following ”Bound South” and...

We are pleased to join the prestigious publication Georgia Review for a special evening with one of Georgia’s most gifted authors, Mary Hood. Her appearance crowns a new issue of Georgia Review that features a much anticipated new story and a new essay by Hood as well as a lengthy interview with the author and a selection of her letters. ”She is a most...

Nine months after the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, Peter Byerly isn’t sure what drew him into a bookshop in a small Welsh town. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to heal his wounds by losing himself collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a...