Image courtesy of Nancy Morales The idea of therapy is often misconstrued as hard work for only people with drastic mental health concerns. However, this belief is incorrect on two

© 2015 Atlanta Film Festival atlantafilmfestival.com ATL Film Festival out-does itself By Emme Raus The 39th annual Atlanta Film Festival showcased a variety of independent films at some of Atlanta’s

  Photo by Emme Raus. By Emme Raus Esteemed novelist and University of Alabama creative writing professor Michael Martone gave a lecture at Ivy Hall at 6:30 p.m. on Feb.

A friend of mine recommended the film “Fifty Shades of Grey,” claiming that the movie was better than the book. After seeing the movie and never reading the book, I can only assume that the screenplay was written on toilet paper. E.L James’s famous fan-fiction novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” tells the story of college undergraduate Anastasia Steele who falls for a young, successful business entrepreneur with quite a few whips and ball gags in his closet.

Nonfiction author Melissa Faye Greene spoke about her first novel “Praying for Sheetrock” at Ivy Hall at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 4. The book took 15 years to write and was published in 1991. Greene is known for writing books based on true Georgian tragedies such as “The Temple Bombing” and “Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster.” She has also been inducted into the Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame at the University of Georgia.