Read in The Bookseller what Jenny Niven, the new director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, said about everything that is new. Her, the venue, new plan, new strategy.
Sounds like they will make the audiences work harder; less of this sitting quietly while the authors speak. (We shall have to see about that.)
The discussion with the dissenting writers is still ongoing. (We shall have to see about that, too.)
And then I studied the photo of Jenny, as you do. All I could think about was what lovely green trousers she was wearing... And then I realised that I have never considered, or noticed, what Nick Barley wore. Some kind of suit, I imagine. Shirt and tie, probably. Handsome, but not green.
I shall assert that I wasn't being sexist. Just that because director Barley didn't wear bright green trousers, I never had a need to notice them.
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