We recently announced “Georgia Reads,” an innovative virtual book club launched in partnership by the University of Georgia Press and Georgia Public Broadcasting, with support from Georgia Humanities. Each year, the partners will select two UGA Press titles, covering topics from history, politics, culture, and biography to the environment. GPB will host “Georgia Reads” on its website (gpb.org/georgia-reads) and feature content including GPB Radio interviews with authors, a regular blog that highlights each title, plus news of live events with the authors and ways to interact with them through social media.
The 25th anniversary edition of Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds: The B-52’s, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia has been selected as the first “Georgia Reads” title. Originally published in 1991, this cult classic offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town and helped put Athens on the international music map as the birthplace of bands including the B-52’s, Pylon, and R.E.M.
Brown was recently interviewed by Bill Nigut, host of GPB Radio’s “Two Way Street,” which you can listen to here. There were also two launch events; Atlanta on March 1 and Athens on March 18 (pics from the Athens kick-off below). Thanks to everyone who came out.
Up next for Georgia Reads: The Rest of the Story Book Club will be discussing Party Out of Bounds at its March meeting on Tuesday, March 28th from 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 258 of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Library. This event is free and open to the public. More information can be found here.
No comments:
Post a Comment