📢 Atlanta! 📢 We're bringing Open Book back to Larakin (@larakinatl) on Wednesday, December 9 from 6-8PM EST. Chosen by Carolinas Editor at Large Robert Alan Grand (@robertalangrand), we'll be reading 'Biography of X' in collaboration with our Asheville and virtual Open Book clubs. 'Biography of X' can be purchased in-person in Atlanta at A Capella Books. Learn more about the book club at the link in bio. — Held in-person and virtually, Open Book is a literary program for curious readers who are interested in engaging with stories touching on both art and our coverage region of the South and Caribbean. At a time marked by AI-generated content and declining reading habits, Open Book serves as a space for critical thinking, thoughtful discussion, and gathering. Through this program, we hope to continue fostering a community of engaged readers across our coverage region and beyond. Biography of X was published in 2023 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. From FSG: “When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM knows where X was born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora’s box of secrets, betrayals, and destruction. All the while, she immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after World War II, and which finally, in the present day, is being forced into an uneasy reunification.” ​Learn more about Open Book and Burnaway at burnaway.org.