
A talented writer does not a speaker make. Go to enough literary events, and you’re bound to experience this first hand. You love the work, have read the author’s novels or memoir and recommended the titles to everyone you know. But when you see them in person? Just. Not. The Same. It’s unfortunate, but occasionally it happens. Authors, after all, frequently live an existence of isolation, in communion with the page alone. But as all literary event coordinators know, the best way to ensure success of any community or campus reads programs is to include the author for a community event. But what if the author is a terrible speaker?
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