Congratulations to A Cappella Books, Atlanta, Ga. which is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the publication of A Cozy Infinity: 25 (Mostly) Atlanta Writers on the Never-Ending Allure of Books and Bookstores.
Contributors include Pulitzer Prize-winner Hank Klibanoff, former Atlanta magazine editor Rebecca Burns, James Beard Award-winning food writer John T. Edge, popular columnist Hollis Gillespie and celebrated local novelists Thomas Mullen, Susan Rebecca White, Anthony Grooms and Joseph Skibell. The title essay was penned by Esquire staff writer and Atlanta resident Tom Junod. 
A book launch/birthday event will be held December 5 at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library (home to many of the bookstore's author events throughout the years), featuring the book's editor, Tony Paris; A Cappella's owner Frank Reiss, who wrote a history of the store for the collection; and a number of contributing writers.
Reiss observed that "a quarter century--and three re-locations--later, A Cappella is still going strong, and, while still hardly bigger physically than its original incarnation, the little store plays a big role in the local literary scene, presenting important authors and selling books at venues all over town."
When asked recently by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution if he felt like a survivor, Reiss replied: "I probably do consciously feel that way. It does seem that we have weathered a pretty significant storm over the past decade. I don’t think it’s anything I deserve a medal for but it would have been very easy to give up and to change course. It may have even been the more sensible thing to do. I really love doing what I do and for whatever reason, I stuck with it. I suspect the next decade won’t be quite as difficult. But who knows?"
