Why You Should Do All Your Traveling Before You Hit 25

This is true. Literary festivals make me paranoid. I spend a lot of time at these events in a state of suppressed freak-out. Why is the Argentinian poet who was friendly to me yesterday, being frosty today? Did the other speakers on this morning’s panel secretly think I was a fool? What if I can’t find anyone to sit with at lunch?Etiquette dictates that all festival attendees pretend to great egalitarian bonhomie, but beneath the surface camaraderie, bitter snobberies and resentmen…