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DAILY PHOTO: Capoeira Demonstration2 comments

B Gourley wrote 3 weeks ago: Taken in 2011 at the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, Georgia Capoeira is a Brazilian system of mov … more →

Tags: Photographs, Pictures], Martial Arts, photos, Georgia, Photos 2, capoeira, Decatur, Brazil

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Book As Art Exhibition in Decatur, GA

Kate wrote 1 month ago: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Book As Art Exhibition in Atlanta Great book arts news for those in the At … more →

Tags: Events 2, Artists' Books, Atlanta, Book Arts news

Read a storybook

Atlanta Heydays wrote 8 months ago: Location: Decatur Education Foundation tent at the 2012 Decatur Book Festival Date taken: September … more →

Tags: City Heydays, Atlanta, Decatur, patricia heys, Decatur Education Foundation, Storybook, Children's Books, Classic Books, Old library books

Hang your wish on a tree

Atlanta Heydays wrote 8 months ago:   Location: Wish Tree at the 2012 Decatur Book Festival Date taken: September 2, 2012 I don’t … more →

Tags: City Heydays, Atlanta, Photography, Decatur, Tree, Wish Tree, tags, Wishes

Selling encyclopedias1 comment

lanceelliottwallace wrote 8 months ago: I was already hungry when I took my seat on the seventh pew on the right of the Decatur Presbyterian … more →

Tags: Lance Wallace, Lance Elliott Wallace, South, southern, Southern Culture, New South, New South Essays, contemporary South, Southern Living

Best American Poetry + Decatur Book Festival = The Labor Day of Our Dreams

* wrote 8 months ago: This past weekend society members headed down to the city within the city of Atlanta for the 2012 De … more →

Tags: Society Outings, Poems, Atlanta, Mark Doty, Kevin Young, Best American Poetry, David Lehman, Natasha Trethewey, Decatur

2012 Decatur Book Festival recap

becca wrote 8 months ago: Labor Day weekend welcomed the largest Independent Book Festival in the country with thousands of bo … more →

Tags: becca ritchie, Community, features, Anna Dressed in Blood, destined, Girl of Nightmares, Jessie Harrell, Kendare Blake, Neal Shusterman

A new take on an old classic

Erin wrote 8 months ago: I discovered a new-to-me author at the DBF. Have you read anything by Margot Livesey? She is a Scott … more →

Tags: Literature, Book, Travel (2), Authors, Scotland, Reading, Iceland, the flight of gemma hardy, Margot Livesey

Decatur Book Festival4 comments

authormariagrace wrote 8 months ago: This weekend I got to attend the Decatur Book Festival, my first book festival and first book signin … more →

Tags: ~My Journey~, Writing Wednesdays, Jane Austen, Barbara Tiller Cole, Labor Day, Regina Jeffers, Jack Caldwell, Robin Helm, Amy Cecil

The Wish Tree66 comments

elisaruland wrote 8 months ago: My friend Dana and I drove into Atlanta last weekend to check out the annual Decatur Book Festival, … more →

Tags: around atlanta, Photographs, Photography, Travel, Humor, Pictures], Atlanta, Inspiration, reflections 2

Scenes from the Decatur Book Festival1 comment

Erin wrote 8 months ago: Book love abounds. Getting my copy signed after Julie Otsuka’s reading.  Cafe Alsace always lo … more →

Tags: book style, Books, Atlanta Literary Guide, Photography, Pete the Cat, julie otsuka, Cafe Alsace, capoeira, book signing

"The company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation."25 comments

Robin Helm wrote 8 months ago: Pamela Aiden signs her books, An Assembly Such as This, Duty and Desire, and These Three Remain, for … more →

Tags: Robin Helm, Pamela Aidan, Laura Hile, Gayle Mills, Book festivals, Pamela Aiden, events for Austen lovers

Seeing Kathy Reichs

Emily Chapman wrote 8 months ago: This morning was not, broadly speaking, a success. It started in a promising fashion. I grabbed two … more →

Tags: life 2, Anthropology, dog, Urban Pet Project, Kathy Reichs, Bones, cupcakes

Decatur Book Festival 2012 Round-Up10 comments

picturemereading wrote 8 months ago: This weekend my husband and I attended the Decatur Book Festival which is the largest independent bo … more →

Tags: Book Festivals/Misc., Festivals, Anna Dressed in Blood, Girl of Nightmares, Kathy Reichs, Kendare Blake, Nancy Holder, Sarah Maas, Tess Gerritsen

Decatur Book Fest 2012

M wrote 8 months ago: Obviously, my weekend peaked when Meg Cabot accepted my Ron Swanson inspired mug (and then tweeted a … more →

Tags: Books, 31 things, Jane Austen

If Not Happiness, Then What?

Olivia J. Herrell wrote 8 months ago: “A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.” ~ Geor … more →

Tags: Quotes, Famous Writers, Bob Dylan, George Bernard Shaw

The Meg Cabot Experience1 comment

M wrote 8 months ago: This morning, I dragged myself out of my Friday night white wine and pizza hangover to see Meg Cabot … more →

Tags: 31 things, Books, Real Life, Writing #2, Meg Cabot, Princess Diaries, Author Stuff

See you today in Decatur:)3 comments

Laura A. H. Elliott wrote 8 months ago: Hey y’all! Good morning:) So excited to go to The Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, GA this we … more →

Tags: paranormal plumes society

We Who Are About to Weekend: Volume 1

Nick Sturm wrote 8 months ago: **We Who Are About to Weekend is a weekly link round-up, book hype repository, and red carpet gif in … more →

Tags: Happening in Meatspace, Round 'em up cowgirl, McSweeney's, Diagram, Mary Ruefle, Jac Jemc, Paul Legault, Dzanc, John Wieners


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