Thursday, May 01, 2008

Jimmy Carter headlines Hay
Guy Dammann writing in The Guardian.

Appearing at Hay: Salman Rushdie. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe

President Jimmy Carter, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Jools Holland, all competing for your attention. Where else but Hay-on-Wye, the sleepy town in the Welsh borders that becomes, for two weeks each year, one of the world's biggest celebrations of all things bookish?
Now into its 21st year, the 2008 Guardian Hay Festival promises to be as varied and vital an event as ever, squeezing some 477 events into the 11 days leading up to June 1.

Read the full story at The Guardian online.
And for full Festival details go to the official Guardian Hay Festival site.

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