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The Auckland Readers & Writers festival is an absolutely brilliant book festival — full of wonderful authors, amazing food, generous volunteers who’ll do anything for you, hugely enthusiastic booksellers and audiences of 800+, not to mention life-changing talks (James Fergusson on The Taliban blew my mind completely. I’m desperately trying to remember what I learned about [...]
Knit your own literary festival.
I studied the bios on my Auckland Writers & Readers Festival yesterday, and there’s an amazing line-up of writers from Madhur Jaffrey to Ingrid Betancourt, Margo Lanagan (with whom I’m sharing a stage) and an incredibly rich variety of New Zealand poets, novelists, film directors and composers. One of the best things about literary festivals [...]
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