Web app Wordle lets anyone to create a word cloud based upon entered text.  Here's what ours looks like from our recent posts: That one word under "bands" let's you know that this is a serious place for the discussion of books....

If you're in Brooklyn and you're in need of a new set of tights, a new cape, truth serum, or even x-ray vision, The Super Hero Supply Co. has you covered with all of the top brands.  The New York Times City Room blog reports on the "front" for 826NYC, home of writing and tutoring [...]...

The Decatur Book Festival is right around the corner.   I did not know this, but apparently our book fest in in the US top ten in terms of the number of authors appearing and in attendance.  Cool. Author appearance highlights: Karen Abbott - Sin in the Second City John Bemelmans Marciano - author of the first new Madeline [...]...

If a friend recommended a book that she described in her email as "a thriller translated from Danish, the story has broad psychological and moral themes" - would you be racing out to the bookstore? Probably not, but after my friend could not stop talking about this book - I decided to give it [...]...

Speaking of the indie scene, there are at least two new Atlanta indies that need your support. The first is a new independent publisher, Mercury Retrograde Press.  From their web site: Mercury Retrograde Press publishes fantasy, science fiction, and the unclassifiable: fiction that propels the reader through unknown territories in this world and others unlike it. Here [...]...