Edinburgh unveils book festival lineup -

Joss Ackland, George Dawes Green and an all-singing Margaret Atwood among highlights of world's largest literary festival
Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent

reporting in the guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 June 2009

A New York storytelling salon that has grown into an American literary sensation, Margaret Atwood's new book on the end of the world and an autobiographical love story featuring actor Joss Ackland are among the headline events at this year's Edinburgh book festival.
The city's literary showcase, the world's largest book festival, will this year bring more than 750 authors to more than 700 readings, recitals and multi-media events in its small village of tents and yurts in a Georgian square in the New Town.

One of the most significant will be the first European appearance of the cult storytelling event started 12 years ago in his New York sitting room by George Dawes Green, the poet and author of The Juror, called The Moth. Originally intimate occasions staged with a small group of friends in Green's apartment reading their own unscripted stories, The Moth has since mushroomed to include William Baldwin, Candace Bushnell, Dominick Dunne, Suzanne Vega, Joe Jackson, Mira Nair and Frank McCourt amongst the story-tellers.

Full report at The Guardian.