Edinburgh Book Festival's Unbound invites fresh approach from DisComBoBuLate, Irregular and Gutter

This article is from 2010.

Both the Book and Art Festivals are leaving their mark in very different ways Words: Anna Millar

Here at List Towers we love a bit of innovation, and this year’s Book Festival appears to be bringing it in spades. Case in point, the the all-new Unbound. Taking a refreshingly out-of-the-box approach, over 18s are invited to a nightly free programme boasting authors, poets and musicians from Britain and the USA. Events will include appearances from some List favourites including live literature nights from The Golden Hour, DisComBoBuLate and Irregular as well as indie magazines McSweeney’s, Gutter and Five Dials.

Authors singing their songs and singers telling their stories include Christopher Brookmyre, Willy Vlautin and Simone Felice. Roland Gulliver, Edinburgh International Book Festival Programme Manager, said of Unbound: ‘We wanted to challenge ourselves, our authors and audiences; to create something new, exciting and slightly chaotic. To say it is authors reading stories, poets reading poems or musicians singing songs doesn’t describe it. It is gloriously indefinable.’

See www.edbookfest.co.uk for more on Unbound.

This article is from 2010.

More: Books, Book Festival, Christopher Brookmyre, Discombobulate, Edinburgh Festivals, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Five Dials, Gutter, Irregular, McSweeney's, Simone Felice, The Golden Hour, Willy Vlautin

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