Come to Off Square Books for a live telecast of Jay-Z in conversation with Cornell West at New York's Public Library. 

A LIMITED NUMBER OF SIGNED COPIES OF DECODED WILL BE AVAILABLE at this event. 

“When I first started working on this book, I told my editor that I wanted it to do three important things. The first was to make the case that hip-hop lyrics—not just my lyrics, but those of every great MC—are poetry if you look at them closely enough. The second was I wanted the book to tell a little bit of the story of my generation, to show the context for the choices we made at a violent and chaotic crossroads in recent history.  And the third piece was that I wanted the book to show how hip-hop created a way to take a very specific and powerful experience and turn it into a story that everyone in the world could feel and relate to.”—JAY-Z, from DECODED

Georgia Bottoms is known in her small
community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and
devoutly Baptist Southern belle.

Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared,
and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and
discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled
lovers-one for each day of the week, with Mondays off-none of whom knows
about the others.

But when the married preacher who has been coming to call (Saturdays)
decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation,
Georgia must take drastic measures to stop him. In GEORGIA BOTTOMS, Mark
Childress proves once again his unmistakable skill for combining the
hilarious and the absurd to reveal the inner workings of the rebellious
human heart.

Mark Childress was born in Monroeville, Alabama. He is the author of six
previous novels and three books for children. He has lived in Ohio,
Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, California, Costa Rica, and
currently lives in Key West, Florida.

We're excited to announce that Newberry award-winning author, Kate
DiCamillo will be coming to Square Books, Jr. in May. DiCamillo is the
author of some of our favorite children's books including The Magician's Elephant, The Tale of Despereaux, Because of Winn-Dixie, Great Joy, the Mercy Watson series and many, many more. You don't want to miss this event with one of today's best children's authors.