Gone and done.

A few last things: Thomas Buergenthal signing a young lawyer’s copy of his book with a salutation to her future career as a human rights lawyer; Hitomi Kanehara and the ten sleepers in her ear; a room full of people celebrating sex with Krissy Kneen, Linda Jaivin and Nikki Gemmell; MJ Hyland and that jibbering microphone; another MJ and Thriller at the Toff; the exhortation to contemplate the future of the book; a missed rendezvous between Heidi Julavits, Eli Horowitz and Lord of the Fries; revisiting childhood wonder at maps with Reif Larsen; the poetry of domesticity with Chris Wallace-Crabbe; Jeff Sparrow and how we conceptualise killing; fiery rumpus on the parallel importation of books; chewy duck canapés; bourbon and bitters; one lost pair of shoes; two shaking arms and a heart full in all its chambers.

Estelle Tang, 3000 BOOKS
Festival Blogger