Book Festival Preview: Gene Wilder contemplates love in his latest work
The legendary actor, now devoted full-time to writing, speaks Sunday afternoon about life and love in an appearance at the Marcus Jewish Community Center's annual book festival.
Love and food. They're probably the only safe topics of conversation at the Thanksgiving dinner table, the themes that never fail to get people talking and laughing together. So it's appropriate that the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta is ending its 19th annual book festival with a visit Sunday from an author who spends a lot of time considering both. Gene Wilder, the actor-turned-writer, is speaking about his latest book, "What Is This Thing Called Love?" It's a collection of twelve short stories about different types of romantic love -- unrequited love, infatuation, young crushes, cheating, cynical love and desperate longing -- with many scenes that revel in the joys of eating (mostly steak and fine wine). Reading Wilder's …
