Atlanta Strip Clubs: Writers go head-to-head in 7-minute bookish bouts
Posted on September 28th, 2011 in Atlanta strip clubs
In addition to giving writers a place to share their work and readers a chance to interact with them, the events have helped establish a loose-knit community of sorts for literary types. Poetry open mics and slams have been around for years, but for the first time local prose writers — especially the nonfiction variety — have public forums of their own.
The trend started two years ago when WABE producer Kate Sweeney and Dionne Irving, a Ph.D. candidate in English at Georgia State University, started True Story, a nonfiction reading series at Kavarna Coffeehouse in Decatur’s Oakhurst neighborhood. Every other month, three writers are invited to present “artifacts” from their youth and give readings. Topics on a recent night ranged from a death investigator’s memoir to a revealing profile of Blondie, the Clermont Lounge’s venerable stripper.
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