Unbound Book Festival takes different approach to event this year
COLUMBIA - While on a book tour in 2013, Alex George, learned how much the Columbia community loves festivals. For example, thousands attend the annual True/False Festival. And that sparked an idea for George to create a book festival in Columbia. "Writers spend most of their time at a desk, sort of staring at a computer screen and it was kind of nice being in front of a crowd and talking to people and engaging with them," George said, the founder of the Unbound Book Festival. George got a group of local educators, librarians, book-sellers and writers together as his starting festival com...