Faversham Literary Festival PIcs

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The three discussions I went to were all varied, two being intellectual and the other by Viv Albertine being funny, acerbic, self-deprecating and wild.

I got Iain Sinclair and Viv to sign books I took with me.


These are the photos I took -



Iain Sinclair.





Charles Umney (current book "Class Matters") on the left and Eliane Glaser at the political philosophical middle event. Unfortunately, the mike got in the way from my angle but she was attending the talk from Viv, so I managed to get a decent pic of her then.



I think she was looking for a friend.

This is a pic of her from Wiki -




Glaser has written for the Independent, New Statesman, and the London Review of Books, and is a contributor to The Guardian, where she has written articles on contemporary propaganda, fake authenticity, Astroturf politics, cyber-utopianism, and the ideology of natural childbirth. Glaser is a regular contributor to, producer of, and sometime presenter for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.

And then we had the riotous wonderful and outspoken Viv Albertine, former punkette of the Slits. I just love her, and meeting her and talking to her at the book signing at the end of the talk was a great thrill.



Awesome and funny. Yep, I am a fan!

When it came to Q&A time, one guy piped out "Will you marry me!" and she just cussed him politely saying "No love I am all shagged out!"




She has a wonderful smile, and scary - not a bit of it!