Author! Author! (literary festivals in Britain)

The Economist (US) | June 11, 1994 | Copyright

IT IS easy to laugh at the literary events which are sprouting up all over Britain. At John Mortimer, the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, picking his way across a muddy sheep-meadow on the Welsh border in ill-chosen clothes--suit, smart shoes, raspberry-pink shirt and marigold-yellow floral tie--and bleating plaintively: "Where's the hospitality tent?" At Jilly Cooper, a writer of steamy romances, bravely agreeing to substitute for Kurt Vonnegut when the author of "Cat's Cradle" and "Slaughterhouse Five" walked out on his readers, some of whom had travelled a few hundred ...

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