GR Reviewed on NewPages.com

Our Spring 2009 issue and its special feature, "Culture and the Environment--A Conversation in Five Essays," just got a nice nod from reviewer Sima Rabinowitz over at NewPages.com. More good reading from The Georgia Review is on the way--our Summer 09 issue is at the printer and should arrive in mailboxes and bookstores by the first week of July. Check TGR website for updates.

The Georgia Review celebrates Earth Day at the Botanical Gardens

Please join us from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia’s Cecil B. Day Chapel, where we will honor Earth Day 2009 with readings, music, and refreshments. The event is free and open to the public.

The botanical garden’s beautiful environs will provide an ideal setting to celebrate The Georgia Review’s newly released Spring 2009 issue, which includes an important special feature entitled “Culture and the Environment—A Conversation in Five Essays.”

Coleman Barks, Athens’ internationally acclaimed poet and Rumi translator, will read from his own work and from the new issue. He will be joined on the program by Milledgeville-based poet Alice Friman, a regular voice in the pages of the Review, and by Athens artist Terry Rowlett, whose striking new paintings grace the cover and interior of the Spring issue. Rowlett will discuss the creation of his works, several of which will be on display.

A reception will follow on the ground floor of the chapel—and, weather permitting, will extend onto the outdoor patio. Music will be provided by Carl Lindberg, local award-winning jazz guitarist and son of the late Stanley W. Lindberg, editor of The Georgia Review from 1977–2000.

A wine tasting conducted by Boutier Winery of Danielsville, light hors d’oeuvres provided by Earth Fare of Athens, and shade-grown coffee served by the botanical garden staff will round out the evening.

Come early and enjoy the garden’s numerous trails on your own, or join one of the new flower garden tours that will be available from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia is located at 2450 South Milledge Avenue.

For more information, visit our website at www.thegeorgiareview.com or call our offices at 706-542-3481.

2009 Pulitzer winners

Congratulations to the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners in the various literary categories -- Elizabeth Strout in fiction for Olive Kitteredge, W.S. Merwin in poetry for The Shadow of Sirius, and Lynn Nottage in drama for her play "Ruined."

The Original of Laura

Thanks, Dmitri, for not burning the note cards that comprise this novel, despite your late father's instructions to the contrary.

Nabokov's (presumably) final unpublished novel will be out in the US from Knopf in November, according to the New York Times.