Participating in and attending events at the BuchBasel literature festival, 15-17 November 2024

At this weekend's BuchBasel literature festival, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel on Taylor Swift with moderator Svenja Reiner and writer Anne Sauer, author of the recently published book "Look What She Made Us Do: Anne Sauer über Taylor Swift". But I also heard superb talks by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (at the opening ceremony on Friday), by photographers Johny Pitts and Eddie Otchere on Otchere's photography, by Carolin Emcke on "queer life", and by Pitts and poet Roger Robinson on their collaborative book of photographs and poems, "Home is not a Place". Pitts and Robinson's title also came up as a theme in the other events I heard. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 17 November 2024)