Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at 9:15 PM
DECATUR BOOK FESTIVAL: Lady Hardin offers quiet, poetic reflection at Java Monkey.
Last weekend, Decatur’s town square and several nearby buildings were taken over by literati, bibliophiles and word nerds. The occasion: the AJC Decatur Book Festival, a gathering of distinguished authors, poets, book vendors and funnel-cake bakers.
This writer’s personal highlights? Illustrator/musician/author Chris Raschka performed his jazzy children’s book Charlie Parker Played Be Bop in the Target-sponsored kiddie tent. When I say performed, I mean he read it to the tune of “A Night in Tunisia†(a Dizzy Gillespie composition famously performed by Parker).
On Sunday, I listened to authors Chris Rose and Michael Tisserand discuss their books chronicling the ups and downs (mostly downs) of life in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Tisserand memorably called the post-Katrina death and devastation in New Orleans “friendly fire†since it was the failure of the U.S. Army’s poorly designed, poorly built flood-control system that wrecked the city. The storm itself did minimal damage.
(Photo by Eamon Siggins)
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