S5 Ep. 22: Live from Unbound: Alex George on the ‘Absolutely Extraordinary Journey’ of Running a Book Festival

fiction/non/fiction

Novelist, Skylark Bookshop owner, and Unbound Book Festival organizer Alex George joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell live from the festival in Columbia, Missouri, to discuss what’s harder, writing a novel or running a bookfest – or doing both and continuing his (other) day job as an attorney. It turns out that doing all of the above is difficult, but so rewarding that George wouldn’t have it any other way. George also reads from his 2020 novel The Paris Hours, an Indie Next Book of the Month selection and Amazon Best Book of the Month, and discusses the merits of living in Columbia’s literary community. Finally, he takes questions from the live audience at Unbound.

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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Selected Readings:

Alex George

• The Paris Hours
• Setting Free the Kites
• A Good American
• skylark bookshop

Others

• Tennessee Williams
• Garth Greenwell
• Intimate Contact: Garth Greenwell on Book Bans and Writing about Sex, Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 5, Episode 12
• Zadie Smith
• George Saunders
• Salman Rushdie
• Michael Ondaatje
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• Maurice Ravel
• Marc Chagall
• Igor Stravinsky
• Coco Chanel
• Gertrude Stein
• James Joyce
• Donald Barthelme
• Josephine Baker
• Marcel Proust

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