Mr. Thomas Bell

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  Published on: 8/28/2009    Last Visited: 8/28/2009  

  Decatur Book Festival program director Thomas Bell (left) and executive director Daren Wang expect the popular annual event to keep growing.
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  Bita Honarvar Decatur Book Festival program director Thomas Bell (left) and executive director Daren Wang expect the popular annual event to keep growing.
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  If Wang, who had produced arts series on public radio for 15 years, and Bell, then a Creative Loafing book and dance critic, knew a lot more about literature than funnel cakes, that was important, too.
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  "We knew there was a vibrant literary scene," Bell said.
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  Atlanta poet and novelist Collin Kelley, a Poetry Atlanta board member, praises the way Wang and Bell have reached out to metro literary organizations, bookstores and writers.
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  Kelley, also co-director of the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival with poet Megan Volpert, was surprised and pleased when Bell approached them about coordinating an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) "track" at this year's Decatur fest.
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  Bell starts with Post-its on a grid that eventually migrates into a database. One of the challenges he tries to resolve - an impossible one, really - is imagining the varied interests of tens of thousands of visitors and then trying to avoid programming events they'd like to see at the same time.
  
  But he's hardly the only festival leader who's compulsively organized.
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  "There's always chaos behind the scenes," Bell said. "We won't pretend."
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  Not at all, thinks Bell, who predicts attendance could more than double, to 150,000 in coming years.
  
  "The thing we worry about is having enough room to put the public," he said.

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  Published on: 9/27/2008    Last Visited: 11/10/2008  

  Then I met two people, Tom Bell (Decatur Book Festival co-founder) and writer, Terra McVoy.

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  Thom Bell (keyboards)
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  MFSB worked closely with record producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and arranger Thom Bell.

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 4/29/2008  

  Thomas Bell
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  Thomas Bell
  
  Thomas Bell is a freelance writer of short fiction, creative nonfiction, speeches, arts criticism, humor, and feature stories.He is also a radio commentator and a public speaker.He covers topics from books, dance and opera to boxing and home improvement.
  
  Bell is a book critic and contributing writer with Creative Loafing (www.creativeloafing.com) in both Atlanta, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina.After getting his start in radio as a frequent guest on "Air Loaf" (a daily arts and politics show on WWAA, Atlanta's Air America affiliate), Bell was soon picked up as a regular commentator on "The Spoken Word," a syndicated weekly literary radio show heard on 40 public radio stations across the country. (www.spokenwordradio.org)
  
  In 2005, The Duck & Herring Co. promoted Bell to the rank of Sergeant-at-Arms (a.k.a. production editor) of its Pocket Field Guides, seasonal literary field guides for the soul.His duties include production editing, web development, copy writing, and scripting and voice work for the podcast serial show "The Pirates of the Seven Aunts."(www.duckandherring.com)
  
  Bell is a contributing editor of the Chattahoochee Review and an assistant editor of Verb: An Audioquarterly.His work has also appeared in the English Journal, the Journal of General Education, Gambit Weekly, Atlanta-Intown, Skirt, and Break Magazine.
  
  Bell gives a popular series of pre-opera lectures before performances by the Atlanta Opera.
  
  A National Merit Scholar, Bell earned his B.A. in English, graduating with honors from Carleton College, consistently ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation.He was also certified to teach secondary education.As a College Teaching Fellow in Florida State University's Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities, Bell earned his M.A. with an emphasis in intellectual history.
  
  Bell is a co-founder of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival, Co-Chair of the Programming Committee, and member of the Board of Directors.
  
  He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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  The group came to the attention of promoter/record shop owner Stan Watson, who introduced them to producer Thom Bell and Moon Shot Records ('He Don't Really Love You' b/w 'Without You' in 1967).

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  Published on: 12/5/2002    Last Visited: 8/30/2008  

  Tom Bell, the festival's program director, appeared on 11Alive News Saturday Today to talk about the premiere.

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  Tom BellProgram Director

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 4/1/2009  

  "We were really pleased with the authors and performers who appeared at this year's festival," said DBF Program Director Tom Bell.

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  According to programming director Tom Bell, the new Decatur tradition that started "as a harebrained scheme among friends sitting at a table at Java Monkey" will feature Friday field trip opportunities for elementary and high school readers; meet-and-greets with author/musicians John Wesley Harding and Peter Case and chefs/cookbook authors Marvin Woods and Scott Peacock; a youth poetry slam final; a teen literary salon; and a Mardi Gras-inspired parade through Decatur's square, featuring area book club members.

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  Published on: 11/11/2007    Last Visited: 11/11/2007  

  "He ,- along with Capote and [Tom] Wolfe ,- gave us license to write in the reporter's notebook with the artist's pen.My own work over the years as a journalist and an author, and my life as a reader have been far more satisfying for that freedom."
  
  THOMAS BELL, program director, Decatur Book Festival

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