A day well spent at JLF.
There're particular events that i've attended.
At first "The Heart Goes Last" Margaret Atwood in conversation with Naomi Alderman at Front Lawns. It is impossible to listen to Margaret Atwood without being utterly charmed by her originality and wit.
The Heart Goes Last takes place in a near-future dystopia where the economy has collapsed and with it has fallen all societal order. Stan and Charmaine are forced to live out of their car, subsisting off of Charmaine's meagre waitress salary, always moving to fend off thieves and gangsters and rapists that will attack any working vehicle. When Charmaine sees an advertisement for a new life in the symbiotic prison/town system of Positron and Consilience, she's desperate to take the plunge. And so Stan and Charmaine find themselves switching monthly between life behind bars in Positron and a soothing 1950s-style domestic life in Consilience. As the ads say,
"DO TIME NOW, BUY TIME FOR OUR FUTURE. CONSILIENCE = CONS + RESILIENCE."But Charmaine and Stan soon realize that, just like their fifties ideal, a facade of perfection isn't easy to maintain.
After that...
"Selfie" Stephen Fry, Helen Mcdonald, Black Morrison, Brigid Keenan, Christina Lamb and Esther Freud, moderated by Samanth Subramanian at Front Lawn. Everyone was sharing ghost of there past that somehow changed there perspective and taught them a lesson for life. Some good and bad memories stored as a snapshot.
Surely glad that I was there.
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