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Intersection - Unbound Fest's Alex George On Writing and Book-festing In Missouri

Intersection - Unbound Fest's Alex George On Writing and Book-festing In Missouri

Released Monday, 15th April 2019
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Intersection - Unbound Fest's Alex George On Writing and Book-festing In Missouri

Intersection - Unbound Fest's Alex George On Writing and Book-festing In Missouri

Intersection - Unbound Fest's Alex George On Writing and Book-festing In Missouri

Intersection - Unbound Fest's Alex George On Writing and Book-festing In Missouri

Monday, 15th April 2019
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This week, Intersection sits down with Alex George, a Columbia author, owner of Skylark Bookshop and founder of the Unbound Book Festival , which comes to Columbia this weekend. Now in its fourth year, the festival has brought literary celebrities - like Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and this year's keynote speaker George Sanders - as well as up-and-coming literary voices to mid-Missouri. George spoke with Intersection host Janet Saidi about what he hopes the community takes away from the festival, what it's like being a British writer in the middle of Missouri and what his future dreams are for Unbound. The festival hosts a day of educational events in Columbia schools with its Authors In the Schools project on Friday, April 19. Then the festival hosts a kick off event with Poetry Abound , at Cafe Berlin Friday afternoon at 4.30pm, just ahead of Friday's 7.30 keynote event with George Saunders at the Missouri Theatre. The main festival panel discussions and author events take place all
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