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October 12, 2005
Sir Peter
Stothard and Jill McGuckin
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credit: Jim “Flash”
Barrilleaux
Times
Literary Reception during 2005 Texas Book Festival
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credit: Jim “Flash”
Barrilleaux
Sir Peter
Stothard and guests at Times Literary Supplement reception
at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin
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credit: Jim “Flash”
Barrilleaux
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 12, 2005
Sir Peter Stothard, Times Literary Supplement Editor
and ‘Thirty Days’ Author,
to Speak at 2005 Texas Book Festival
(Austin, TX) — Sir Peter Stothard, author and editor
of Times Literary Supplement, the leading
international journal of literary criticism and
ideas, will attend the 10th annual Texas Book
Festival in Austin and speak on the relationships
between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and
President George Bush immediately proceeding the
Iraqi War.
His talk is scheduled for 2:45-3:30 p.m. Sunday,
October 30, in the Senate Chamber of the Texas State
Capitol during the weekend-long festival on the
Capitol grounds. Stothard will sign copies of
“Thirty Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair’s War”
immediately afterward in the Book Signing Tent.
Stothard wrote “Thirty Days” after spending a month
shadowing Blair in the days before the Iraqi War,
with him at Downing Street and at conferences at
Camp David and in Northern Ireland and Brussels.
Tina Brown at Salon.com described the book as “a Bob
Woodwardian, up-close-and-personal diary of the
scene at No. 10 Downing Street as Blair and his
inner circle prepared for the war with Iraq,” and
Hasan Suroor of India’s The Hindu said, “He does
what is so rare in this age of opinionated
journalism: He simply reports what he sees … a
parallel universe where normality has an altogether
different meaning.”
For 10 years, from 1992 to 2002, Stothard was editor
of The Times of London and before that its U.S.
editor. He writes on British and American politics
and ancient history and literature for such
newspapers as The Wall Street Journal and travels
frequently to the United States. He is an honorary
fellow of Oxford’s Trinity College, where he was a
Greek and Latin scholar from 1969 to 1973. He was
knighted in 2003 for services to the newspaper
industry.
In addition to his book festival appearance,
Stothard will host an invitation-only reception for
regional subscribers to the Times Literary
Supplement and other guests.
This year’s Texas Book Festival, marking its 10th
anniversary with a “celebration of words” theme,
will be held October 28-30 at the State Capitol in
Austin. The popular panel discussions, author
readings and book signings, and live music are set
along with children’s activities, art activities,
cooking demonstrations and more. The festival is
free and benefits the public libraries of Texas. For
more information, visit
www.texasbookfestival.org.
Contact:
McGuckin Entertainment PR
Jill McGuckin, 512.217.9404 cell; megjill@aol.com;
www.mcguckinpr.com
BMI Austin Representative
McGuckin Entertainment PR
500 Riverside Drive #160
Austin, Texas 78704
512.478.0578
jill@mcguckinpr.com
www.mcguckinpr.com
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