Smith warns library closures threat to 'democracy of reading'

Author Ali Smith has used her appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to warn how the closure of public libraries was threatening the “democracy of reading”. Smith, who was interviewed at the festival yesterday (16th August), said the continued closing of libraries would have an impact on the next generation of writers, and that creating “community libraries” meant that in the end the libraries would “fall apart”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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