Madibaland @ Bookbedonnerd 2023: an interview with Darryl David

“When we created Book Town Richmond, that Obama phrase, ‘the audacity of hope’, was uppermost in my mind. Because it was sheer audacity to create a Book Town with not a cent to our names. It was sheer audacity to think that writers and bibliophiles would travel nearly 1 000 kilometres to a book festival. And somehow, here we are. Seventeen years later. Against all odds.”