Celebrating performative literature
Literary festivals offer an occasion to indulge in the guiltless pleasures of the middlebrow bourgeois culture.
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Literary festivals offer an occasion to indulge in the guiltless pleasures of the middlebrow bourgeois culture.
Kathmandu, Nepal, December 19, 2022: The 10th edition of the Nepal Literature Festival is going to be held in Pokhara from December 21 to 26.
Read all about it 1 A blogger a number of years ago cited an alleged Unesco statistic stating that Thais only read eight lines per year compared to the five books a year Singaporeans and Vietnamese read. I couldn't find the statistic anywhere but a former editor for Guru also wrote in one of her past editor's note that the National Statistic Office reported in 2005 that Thais read an average of just seven lines a year. However, the Unesco site which you can check out has traced that illiteracy has begun declining in 2015 so perhaps the seven-lines-per-year has improved. But why in the wo...