Edinburgh International Book Festival
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Ali Smith | In August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
, three months before publication, AS
stated her concern for the future of the public library system itself. As a narrative thread, she collected personal oral library... |
| Textual Production | Ali Smith | Two other writers, Clare Duffy
and Julia Taudevin
, worked with three actors for three days to produce an adapted, semi-staged, genuinely thrilling performance of How to be Both for the Edinburgh International Book Festival |
| Textual Production | Ali Smith | Published a mere six months after the referendum sealing Britain's departure from the European Union
, Autumn reflects AS
's increasingly complex explorations of art's temporality. In an interview with Eric Karl Anderson
, Smith... |
| Reception | Candia McWilliam | For the whole of her career, CMW
has had a difficult relationship with critics and the media; writing may have made her a public figure, but her beauty, her two high-profile marriages, and her alcoholism... |
| Publishing | Margaret Atwood | She opened an interactive website on her new book, designed especially for the environmental activists who are many of the book's subjects and hopefully of its readers. Persuaded to have a Twitter
feed, she set... |
| Literary responses | Ali Smith | Reviews of Autumn were overwhelmingly positive and generally quite taken with the timeliness of its subject-matter. Joanna Kavenna
called it a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities, while Laura Miller
observed that... |
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