Bookzilla, the Decatur Book Festival mascot, is looking mighty hungry...for knowledge?
September 1st, 2011
04:10 PM ET
Dragon*Con's nerdy sibling to the east
Atlanta’s Dragon*Con might be the nerdly epicenter of the weekend, but for those of you in town, there’s a rumble of something geeky six miles to the east.
The Decatur Book Festival is an annual Labor Day weekend gathering of 50,000 book lovers and literary types just outside Atlanta. It can’t compete with the fan-and-costume overload of Dragon*Con, but it has a Faulkner-quoting monster named Bookzilla for a mascot, so that counts for something. FULL POST
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