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Celebrating our 20th Anniversary

Anniversary Party

A Weekend of 20 Authors!
Celebrating our 20th Anniversary

Saturday, December 5th and Sunday, December 6th

In The Opal Gallery both days from 12-5pm

As we've been telling you for a while now, A Cappella turns 20 years old this December 1, and we continue to celebrate with a 20% off sale on EVERY USED BOOK IN THE STORE.

Now,we're thrilled to announce that on the first weekend of December, we're going to really celebrate with A WEEKEND OF 20 AUTHORS.

On December 5 and 6, from 12-5pm, we will present two authors each hour in Opal Gallery talking not just about their own books, but about a favorite book of theirs, by someone else. For instance, Marc Fitten, whose debut novel Valeria's Last Stand has been an international bestseller and has received rave reviews here, will talk about the book that made him want to be a writer, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Bestselling and award-winning author Joshilyn Jackson will share the work of the under-appreciated author Frank Turner Hollon. The outrageous Hollis Gillespie will speak on her admiration for the cool and controlled writing of Joan Didion in Book of Common Prayer. Spelman professor and author Jelani Cobb, whose work has focused on the Civil Rights Era and Hip Hop culture, will read from Pete Hamill's Piecework. It's going to be the most interesting weekend we've had in 20 years.

In addition to 20 great authors whom we've gotten to know through the years, we'll be entertained by some of Atlanta's most enduring musical artists, who have also played a role in A Cappella's history: Slim Chance, Mudcat, Caroline Herring and Bill Taft of Hubcap City, to name a few.

Read more about this event and our anniversary:
Access Atlanta Article
Creative Loafing Article
American Book Sellers Article

Saturday Schedule

12:00 p.m. Laurel Snyder (author of Any Which Wall) discusses Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
12:30 p.m. Marc Fitten (author of Valeria's Last Stand) discusses Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
1:00 p.m. Pearl McHaney (author of Eudora Welty as Photographer and Occasioins: Selected Writings) discusses Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
1:30 p.m. Jack Riggs (author of The Fireman's Wife and When the Finch Rises)discusses Rabbit Run by John Updike
2:00 p.m. Hollis Gillespie (author of Trailer Trashed) discusses Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
2:30 p.m. Jack Wilkinson (author of The Georgia Tech Football Vault) discusses Pull Me Up and City Lights by Dan Barry
3:00 p.m. Richard Doster (author of Crossing the Lines and Safe at Home) discusses Mystery Manners by Flannery O'Conner
3:30 p.m. William Jelani Cobb (author of The Devil and Dave Chappelle and The Break of Dawn) discusses Piecework by Pete Hamill
4:00 p.m. Jessica Handler (author of The Invisible Sisters) discusses Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
4:30 p.m.  N. Frank Daniels (author of Futureproof) discusses Cultural Amnesia by Clive James

Sunday Schedule

12:00 p.m. Susan White (author of Bound South) discusses Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon
12:30 p.m. Alan Deutschman (author of Walk the Walk) discusses Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
1:00 p.m. Jay Hakes (author of A Declaration of Energy Independence) discusses Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman  
1:30 p.m. Hank Klibanoff (author of The Race Beat) discusses Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2:00 p.m. Rebecca Burns (author of Rage in the Gate City) discusses Stif by Mary Roach
2:30 p.m. Rodger Brown (author of Party Out Of Bounds) discusses Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans
3:00 p.m. Andrew Dietz (author of The Last Folk Hero) discusses Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer with his daughter.
3:00 p.m. Amanda Gable (author of The Confederate General Rides North) discusses Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes
4:00 p.m. Jeffrey Stepakoff (author of Billion Dollar Kiss) discusses The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4:30 p.m. Joe Crespino (author of In Search of Another Country) discusses Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
5:00 p.m. Joshilyn Jackson (author of Gods in Alabama, Between, Georgia and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming) discusses The Wait and several other titles by Frank Turner Hollon

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