Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2012
Year three of this eclectic, amusing, inspiring, sometimes audacious and always brilliant festival, set up to celebrate the area's radical thinking and literary heritage.
Year three of this eclectic, amusing, inspiring, sometimes audacious and always brilliant festival, set up to celebrate the area's radical thinking and literary heritage.
The son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Alexander Baron was raised in Hackney and campaigned against fascists in the East End in the 1930s. His experiences in the D-Day landings inspired his first novel, From the City from the Plough. His cult novel about the London underworld, The Lowlife, has been cited as a major antecedent to punk. Writer and journalist Ken Worpole, Alexander Baron’s son Nick and author John Williams discuss Baron’s life, and the sudden contemporary revival of interest in his works, with books being republished and film rights in the offing.
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