“We read to know we’re not alone”: THE FIRST-EVER LITERARY FESTIVAL FOR EXPATS AND RANDOM NOMADS
In honor of The Displaced Nation’s first anniversary, as well as in the spirit of World Party Month, I would like to propose the first-ever Displaced Nation literary festival featuring authors who have been interviewed or in some way featured on the site during the past year. Because of their own peripatetic ways, these writers have much to say to the rest of us nomadic types about how to make sense of feelings of isolation, ennui and displacement. Augustine once advised, treat the world as their book, rather than staying put and reading only one page. We’ve also taken authors into our confidence who, as St. That must be why author interviews have played such an important role in the entertainment mix provided by The Displaced Nation since our founding one year ago.Ī book that enables us to escape to a new world without buying a plane ticket? Bring it on!Ī book that makes us feel at home in another part of the world? There’s nothing we crave more. Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. The displaced writer Hazel Rochman once said that reading “makes immigrants of us all”:
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