Wednesday

Arnold Rampersad

• 7:15 pm: As part of the Decatur Arts Festival Literary Arts Festival, the Georgia Center for the Book presents acclaimed author Arnold Rampersad. Rampersad is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and a member of the Department of English at Stanford University. His books include biographies of Langston Hughes and Jackie Robinson, and he collaborated with Arthur Ashe on his memoir, Days of Grace. His new book, Ralph Ellison: A Biography, "sweeps every cobweb out of every nook and cranny of the life of Ralph Ellison, 404.370.8450
• 8 pm: Eddie's Attic hosts In the Round with Bob Livingston, Jeff Talmadge and Blake Guthrie, 404.377.4976
• 8:30 pm: Java Monkey hosts Wednesday Bluegrass, 404.378.5002