Novelist, Skylark Bookshop owner, and Unbound Book Festival organizer Alex George joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell live from the festival in Columbia, Missouri, to discuss what’s harder, writing a novel or running a bookfest – or doing both and continuing his (other) day job as an attorney. It turns out that doing all of the above is difficult, but so rewarding that George wouldn’t have it any other way. George also reads from his 2020 novel The Paris Hours, an Indie Next Book of the Month selection and Amazon Best Book of the Month, and discusses the merits of living in Columbia’s literary community. Finally, he takes questions from the live audience at Unbound.

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Selected Readings:

Alex George

Others

Tennessee Williams
Garth Greenwell
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Zadie Smith
George Saunders
Salman Rushdie
Michael Ondaatje
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Maurice Ravel
Marc Chagall
Igor Stravinsky
Coco Chanel
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
Donald Barthelme
Josephine Baker
Marcel Proust

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S5 Ep. 22: Live from Unbound: Alex George on the ‘Absolutely Extraordinary Journey’ of Running a Book Festival