http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/scotland-blog/2012/feb/10/cheltenham-literary-festival-celebrities
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Scratches to Sketches
Saturday, 11 February 2012
The case for celebrities at book festivals | UK news | guardian.co.uk
How much hype should the organising group give a book festival and how far should one move from bookish? These are questions book festival organisers in the UK are asking. Do the books and authors properly promoted sell themselves or do you want to defray costs by adding celebrities from outside the book world? The celebrities help lower averge costs assuming more people attend. The question to ask is whether the festival is self sustaining as a book festival or should another name be given to it, such as arts festival.
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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth.
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