4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Writers Damian Barr, Evie Wyld and Joe Dunthorne discuss the rise of live literary events.
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0:48.8 | Welcome to Literary Death Match round two. |
0:56.7 | Please welcome to the stage, your host for homework, Mr Joe Dunthor! |
1:02.1 | It's like that really good party that you didn't know was going to happen, |
1:05.8 | and someone invites you along to a friend of a friend's party. |
1:08.3 | It was a fantastic evening with a great experience to hear so many different writers I've |
1:14.7 | never heard of before. |
1:17.8 | Hardly seems possible that they're talking about books. |
1:20.9 | And after our recent addings to the literary salon of 50s Dublin and the windy wilds of the |
1:26.3 | Yorkshire Moors were back in the heart of the metropolis |
1:29.0 | at the newly revamped Foils Bookshop on Taring Cross Road for a special programme on a growing phenomenon, live literature. |
1:38.1 | Big name author events, of course, have always drawn the crowds, but there's been a real surge of something more grassroots recently. Literary |
1:45.4 | events is regular nights out, week on week in pubs, clubs, shops and restaurants across the |
1:51.1 | country. So if you don't know your book jams from your book slams, your literary death matches |
1:56.7 | from your scratch nights, then listen on. To help me navigate my way, I'm joined by three writers |
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