Gerakbudaya Bookshop will once again be the official bookseller to the award-winning George Town Literary Festival this year. The festival dates are 22–25 November 2018. The theme for this year's edition is "The State of Freedom". The theme was decided before the recent Malaysian election – and this...
GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL : WORDS MUSIC. It's about time we did our second feature on this year's George Town Literary Festival (25–27 November). The bookshop – together with Penang Institute – is sponsoring a performance of fathers and sons, words and music in a...
GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL #1. It may only be a speck on the horizon ...
There are a couple of excellent reports on the recent George Town Literary Festival which was, by consensus, a huge success. Samantha Joseph's piece in the New Straits Times focuses in particular on the state of publishing – highlighting the contributions of publishers like Bernadette...
The waiting is over, the bookstall is set up (and looking fine) and the writers are in town. And after the welcome from the George Town Literary Festival curator, Umapagan Ampikaipakan, there was a quite brilliant keynote address from Eddin Khoo – invoking the spirits...
Just a day to go before the George Town Literary Festival's official opening at The Whiteaways Arcade tomorrow (Friday) at 5.30pm. It was a pleasure to welcome Hans Kemp to the bookshop today. He is an award-winning photographer who's been based in Asia for more...
The George Town Literary Festival at The Whiteaways Arcade is almost upon us and the writers are circling town. What's to say about the boundless talents Il Maestro, otherwise known as Marco Ferrarese? The Penang-based Renaissance man is a freelance travel and culture writer, anthropologist,...
For more than thirty years James C. Scott has been a towering and radical analyst of Malaysia, of Southeast Asia and of agrarian societies around the world. His work should speak to us loudly today for his abiding concern has been how subaltern groups resist...
The excitement is building for this weekend's George Town Literary Festival, with the launch of two more books from the ever-innovative Fixi stable. The book launch of Perjalanan (Journey) and Here Be Nightmares takes place on Sunday 30 November at 6.00pm – venue: The Twelve...