Commentary
Four Days in Tinsel Town
The equal of seven anywhere else
by Tom Thompson •
Sydney writers are notoriously slack during any hot summer. Sydney audiences are equally lackadaisical. Except, it seems, when it comes to fronting authors on their working-holidays, if we can judge by the numbers who turned up to this year’s Writers sessions at the Sydney Festival. For each of the eight sessions of ‘The View from Tinsel Town’, held in the grandeur of the Sydney Town Hall (January 16 to 19), was enjoyed by capacity audiences. As Margaret Jones commented in the Sydney Morning Herald: ‘It would have been a sell-out if it hadn’t been free.’
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