The first live LITOPIA AFTER DARK of the season returns with the humongously diverse smorgasbord of ingredients that you’ve come to expect and (we hope) love! Our vintage panel comprises Donna Ballman, Eve Harvey, Dave Bartram and special panellist and business guru Martyn Daniels.

Topics covered and links include:

• What can today’s publishing business learn from the long-standing success of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary?
• Scotland is full of dangerous natives who speak an incomprehensible language – say 13th century Viking travel guides
• Marathon into Snickers, the Dust Brothers into the Chemical Brothers… but how will they re-brand the book?
• E-bay halts a highly profitable granny auction
• How can writers escape from the tyranny of process?
• And why are writers crappy conversationalists?
• UK public libraries are under threat from politicians’ visions
• Super Thursday sees 800 books published on a single day

This week’s nourishing fusion of titles for the Commissioning Meeting are:

DONNA
“The Last American  (A Fragment from The Journal of Khan-li, Prince of Dimph-Yoo-Chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy)”
John Ames Mitchell, 1845-1918

EVE
“A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)”
Henry Carey, 1687?-1743

MARTYN
“The Legacy of Ignorantism”
Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera, 1857-1925

DAVE
“A Lecture On Heads  (As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812)
Geo. Alex Stevens

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