2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 20:30:48
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Celebrating its 30th birthday in 2013, the Edinburgh International Book Festival brought 800 authors from around the world to Scotlands capital city to take part in events on themes as diverse as Feminism Today, Memory and the Imagination, Making Music, Comics and Graphic Novels and Blueprints for the Future. Booker and Pulitzer prize-winners rubbed shoulders with bestsellers, debut novelists, scientists, philosopher, childrens authors and illustrators and inspirational storytellers. You can hear some of the events here in our series of free podcasts recorded live at the Book Festival.
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Joe Sacco at Edinburgh International Book Festival
26/08/2013 Duração: 54minPrevious books such as Footnotes In Gaza established Joe Sacco’s international reputation as the world’s leading comics journalist. His latest graphic novel Journalism is a compelling set of cartoon-essays, in which he demonstrates the power of comic journalism to grasp at the truth. In conversation with event chair Adrian Searle, Sacco reveals what drives his work and why objective journalism is not always honest Journalism. Recorded live at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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Chris Ware at Edinburgh International Book Festival
26/08/2013 Duração: 56minIn Chris Ware’s first appearance at the Book Festival he discussed his critically acclaimed graphic novel Building Stories and why comics are a language, not a genre with event chair and comics fan Stuart Kelly. Building Stories is a box set of differently-sized comics, booklets, broadsheets, posters and a cloth bound book has been described as ‘a graphic novel on the scale of James Joyce’s Ulysses’. This event was introduced by Roland Gulliver and recorded live at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival.