Reading Local: Atlanta

An Evening With Alix Dobkin
Saturday, March 13, 8:00-9:30pm
Charis Books and More

An Evening With Alix Dobkin
Saturday, March 13, 8:00-9:30pm
Charis Books and More

For her last 25 years as a professional folksinger, Alix Dobkin’s songs, albums, concerts, lectures and presentations have focused on women in general & lesbians in particular, frequently inspiring thought-provoking controversy. Alix will join us to read from her memoir, MY RED BLOOD: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement. You won’t want to miss a moment of this rare and intimate evening with a living legend!

We Were Dancing on a Volcano with Joe Gatins
Thursday, March 11, 7:30-9:00pm
Charis Books and More

Join Charis Books and More for a very special evening with historian Joe Gatins who chronicles his family’s remarkable history, including his great-grandfather who built and operated Atlanta’s famous Georgian Terrace Hotel and his French heiress grandmother, Egle Gatins, whose description of her own life between the wars in Paris gives the book its evocative title: We Were Dancing On a Volcano. In honor of women’s history month, Egle’s story will be the focus of Joe’s talk. Don’t miss this compelling discussion of the cross-currents of history and its effects on one Atlanta family.