Saturday, 2 June 2007

If I didn't have to do my assignment...

If I wasn't such a dedicated student I would be at the Sydney Writers' Festival. If I was more of a recalcitrant I would've gone to see


Sophie Gee talk about her new book The Rape of the Lock in a session called Plundering History.


Richard E Grant in conversation with Jennifer Byrne.

PLUS

The Future of English; William Dalrymple in conversation with Christopher Kremmer; The Writers Life: Don Watson; Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Conversation; Lionel Shriver in Conversation and Laugh Out Loud. And that's without really looking that hard. Next year I've resolved to go to both the Sydney and Melbourne Writers'/Writer's Festivals.


But, alas, right now I am sitting at home avoiding my assignment in other countless ways - like writing to this blog.
Only 10 days to go until I finish....






2 comments:

Fairlie - www.feetonforeignlands.com said...

It's a date for next year...I'll come up to SWF and then you come south for MWF.

Lionel Shriver in conversation could have been interesting - shame your assignment is taking precendence.

M said...

Done deal then. Will put it in the diary.

Lionel Shriver sold out in a nano-second anyway.