Sydney Writers' Festival
I only ended up going to a handful of events in which I was particularly interested. Augusten Burroughs was much less neurotic than I imagined (considering his childhood of bible dips, toilet divinations and DIY plasterwork). Eric Hansen and Robert Dessaix definitely stole the show for me--they had the audience in stitches with their anecdotal experiences told with deadpan wit and humour.
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Nancy Pearl at Calling All Librarians
6.30pm Thursday 26 May 2005
--isn't she cute? And no, I'm not a librarian (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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Author of Book Lust and More Book Lust, Nancy seems to be the librarian's uber-hero. She's passionate, feisty and she even has her own action doll figure modelled after her--complete with shushing action. Now how cool is that?
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Nancy Pearl interviewing Mark Kurlansky (author of Salt and Cod)
The Writer and the Librarian
12.30pm Saturday 28 May 2005
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Richard Glover interviewing Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors, Dry and Magical Thinking)
3.00pm Saturday 28 May 2005
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Eric Hansen, Jan Brokken, Robert Dessaix and Tim Moore
The Art of Travel
11.00am Sunday 29 May 2005
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Lee Stringer and Augusten Burroughs (Unfortunately Alice Sebold was a last-minute cancellation)
Writing Saved My Life
Chaired by Julie McCrossin
1.00pm Sunday 29 May 2005
The Sydney Writers' Festival is held annually in late May.
posted by Anonymous on 6/01/2005 11:30:00 pm
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1 Comments:
At 6/02/2005 11:07 am,
Kelly said…
I absolutely love the librarian action figure! How hilarious! Becoming a librarian was a long standing childhood ambition for me, and I still might head in that direction one day. Maybe I can have an action figure created in my likeness too!
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