Many of us have heard of the television program What Not to Wear. If Stacey London and Clinton Kelly were writers, they might write a text like Charles Haddad's Pity the Poor Reader: A Pirate's Manifesto On Writing Well. The author has generously made a full text version available for online viewing. Check it out here.

Bookzilla and the Decatur Book Fest

Can you hear it? The sound is coming closer! It's the thundering footsteps of Bookzilla approaching our town!

The 2010 AJC Decatur Book Festival will be hosting a range of literature-centered events ranging from traditional readings by local, national, and international authors; a book fair, a children's stage and writing/publishing workshops to cooking demos; parades; poetry slams and more. You can follow festival events on Facebook and Twitter or take a look at the "Authors by Genre" page here.

Jaggy Reads

A message from Dr. Terry Bozeman, Assistant Professor of English:

Please remember to pack your lunch and join us for the GPC Reads group discussion of Pat Conroy’s The Great Santini on Monday, August 30 from Noon to 1:00 in SF-2100. Everyone is welcome: those who have completed the text, nearly completed the text and even those who just want to have lunch with us and listen to a lively discussion of the text.

The next GPC Reads selection will be The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King. Also, those interested in joining a Facebook readers' circle for The Great Santini can do so here. Cassandra King's Facebook page is accessible here .