Tuesday, May 4, 2004

Sydney Writer's Festival

It's on from May 17-23, 2004. Website is: http://www.swf.org.au.

Highlights include:
* SALAM PAX. He lives in Baghdad. His book, The Baghdad Blog, was first published as a diary on the internet from September 2002. It was written at great risk and in complete secrecy. (Salam Pax is a pseudonym.)
* HARVEY PEKAR. He became a cult hero when the film American Splendor, based on his self-published autobiographical comic books, was released. Pekar lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

You can catch both Salam (pseudonym) and Harvey at Alternative Media talk on Saturday, May 22 2004, 13:30 - 14:30, at the Sydney Dance Company 2/3.

Salam will also be speaking at the 'The Blogger from Baghdad' and the 'Iraq - Who's Winning, Who's Losing?' sessions.

Harvey will also be speaking at the 'Comics for Big Kids', 'American Splendor - talk' and the 'American Splendor - Screening' sessions.