DBF Preview #6: An Eagle Eye Future of the Book

Are we headed towards a dystopian, book-rejecting future similar to that featured in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451? (Which, by the way, has just been published as graphic novel -- Eagle Eye had a copy I was drooling over the other day – tempting.)

 The Decatur Book Festival’s Future of the Book panel will likely be addressing this question and others on Sunday, September 6, from 1:15 to 2 p.m. at the Eddie’s Attic Stage. The panel headlines writing and publishing consultant Richard Nash and John McLeod, who is the sales and marketing director at the University of Georgia Press. Teresa Weaver, the book editor at Atlanta Magazine, is the moderator.

From my vantage point as an outsider, this looks to be speakers of two diverse backgrounds – McLeod a more traditional scholarly publishing background and Nash the twittering, facebooking, social networking-but-don’t-call-it-viral promoting who used to have his own independent press. It should be interesting to hear their views on where book culture is heading.  

 I’ll try to catch part of the discussion, but will be ducking out the back shortly before 2 p.m. and heading over to Eagle Eye’s booth to sign copies of my book  "a guide to the the cluttered aisles contemporary book culture" along with fiction writers Andie Ryan, and Gino Brogdon. Located in booths 251 and 252 (at the corner of Ponce and East Court Square). Eagle Eye has quite an extensive group of authors and I’ve included the list in Comments.   

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[Murray Browne]

Eagle Eye's List of Authors

Sat Aug 5

11:30-1:30

Karl Lenker: Final Trumpet
Andie Ryan: Shakedown
Jedwin Smith: Fatal Treasure
George Dillard: 7 Things That God Desires for Us
Joyce Revoir: Little Garden Stories

Sat: 2pm-3:30pm

Andy Harp: Northern Thunder
Josh Batchelder: Black Watch Diary
Wright Gres: Macedonia Passage
Jeff Dennis: Wisdom Of Loons
Stephanie Bond: Body Movers

Sat 4pm-5:30pm

Melissa Conroy: Poppy's Pants
5 authors signing the Anthology NIGHTBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
Jeff Dennis
Jedwin Smith
Sherry Haney
Jennie Helderman Tracy Rud

Sunday, Sept. 6th

Sunday 12-1:45
Chef Rian MacDonald: Taste Buds
Tim Link: Wagging Tales: Every Animal Has a Tale
Tim Holtz A Doctor in Little Lhasa

2pm
Gino Brogdon: Demons in the Crawlspace
Andie Ryan: Shakedown
Murray Browne: The Book Shopper: A Life in Review
Victor Gibbons: Identity Process

3pm
Catherine Dyer & Sisters: You Want Me To Bring "A Dish"?

4pm
Gino Brogdon: Demons in the Crawlspace
&
6 authors signing the Anthology
Family Affair, What it Means to be African American Today

Gil Robertson
Bunnie Jackson Ransom
Kelley Jackson
Raegan Burden
Venus Bivens
Dee Robinson