Verb produces some of the largest book and music events in Atlanta and Decatur. With over twenty years working with authors, musicians, book events and public radio, Verb is the go-to source for making author events happen in Atlanta. Words, Music, Hare-Brained Schemes: We do it all.

Some Verb projects you may know:

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In partnership with Chronicle, Verb is the founding producer of the AJC-Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the Country. Celebrating five years of proving that Decatur and Atlanta has a thriving book culture, the AJC-DBF is ground zero for all things books in Georgia.

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Working with legendary folk venue Eddie's Attic and Agnes Scott College, Verb has launched Eddie and Agnes, a new concert series for metro Atlanta. In coming months, Presser Hall, one of the best sounding venues in Atlanta, will host some of the top performers in the country.

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Daren Wang, curator of Verb, appears weekly on WABE's City Cafe with John Lemley to promote book and author events around the region.

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Verb: An Audioquarterly is an occasional literary magazine released only in audio. Presenting exclusive writing from some of the top writers in the country, some issues of Verb are available over at Audible. Vol. 1, No. 1 featuring Robert Olen Butler, James Dickey, Ha Jin, Tom Lux, Tom Franklin and Stuart Dybek and Vol. 1, No. 2 featuring Stuart Dybek, Peter Case, George Singleton and more.

 

Some of the coverage of Verb of late.

Jamie Gumbrecht gives Eddie & Agnes a shout out (Inside Access, Jan. 12, 2010)
Tickets on sale for first in Decatur’s new Eddie and Agnes concert series:

Dekalb Neighbor does a nice profile of Eddie & Agnes (And Michelle & Daren)(Dec. 29, 2009)
Eddie Partners with Agnes

A kind feature from Howard Pousner and Jamie Gumbrecht about the Decatur Book Festival (AJC, Aug. 28, 2009)
Decatur Book Festival a Young Heavyweight

Verb has produced hundreds of hours of radio, spoken word, music, and audiobooks over the years. Watch this space as we start highlighting bits or archives.

Bomblight Prayer Vigil, Peter Case from Verb: An Audioquarterly V1,i2
Grammy nominee is one of the best singer songwriters of the last 30 years. From his start with The Nerves, through the Plimsouls, to his groundbreaking solo career, Peter has never sat still. This 2006 suite of spoken songs is singular in his career, and was a real coup for Verb's second issue.
Comin' Your Way

Back Home

Kokomo Prayer Vigil

Dead Hand Got'cha

The Ballad of the Minimum Wage

Sweet As You Are

Daren's Stuff

Daren Wang curates Verb, but he occasionally pursues schemes too hare-brained for that venerable institution. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter, or on various blogs to find out what trouble he's getting into when he's not trying to make Verb work.

Decatur Midlife Crisis/Opportunity

Daren's blog about personal renovation. It will track his various efforts to embrace his mid-fortiness. One recurring theme is the workout record project, wherein he listens to forgotten vinyl from his record collection while working out, and then shares his horror or joy at what he's hearing for the first time in twenty five years.

Daren is getting LASIK treatment, and has been asked to document the process. Follow him over on the Emory Vision Blog as he scraps the specs and starts seeing like a sprightly twenty-year-old.

A couple recent stories on Daren:
Michael Hunter's profile of Daren Wang in the Atlanta Business Chronicle (Dec. 18, 2009)
The full version, hosted on the verb site
Selling creativity is way of life for Decatur exec
behind the firewall at Atlanta Business Chronicle
Selling creativity is way of life for Decatur exec

Daren orchestrated the most expensive beer sale in Decatur History (AJC, Feb. 9, 2009)
Pubs first pint ($2650) swigged for a good cause

Another hare-brained scheme (AJC, Aug. 4, 2009)
Decatur to donate old banners for tote bag project

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