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How not to run a literary festival

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

Gstaad

A friend of mine who lives here wants to start a literary festival and asked me if I had any advice for him. He’s a nice fellow and very friendly with my daughter, but he’s also the type who, had he been on board the Titanic, would have thought that the engines had stopped in order to take on some ice.

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