Your Litro events editor is late to the virtual relaunch party. For shame, but I’m here now, having only just emerged from a dissertation-induced writing hangover. (Sorry? What dissertation? Oh, how very kind of you to ask! It’s called “See You in the Funny Papers: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Art Spiegelman’s Tragicomics”. Would you like to see it published as a 30-part Litro blog series? No? Oh, alright.)

First, just a few quick introductions and we’ll get on with business. Many of you may already know Tom Chivers, whether through Penned in the Margins, London Word Festival, or as a poet-in-residence at the Bishopsgate Institute. I first crossed paths with Tom whilst covering the brilliant Word Festival earlier this year, and so was rather excited to learn that we’d be working together on Litro.

As for me? A librarian’s daughter, my given household chore as a child was to dust the family’s many bookshelves, a task that inevitably left me bored and curled up with one of the books I was meant to be dusting. Were my parents diabolical geniuses whose goal was to pique my interest in literature or were they just pawning off a chore they didn’t like? Whatever the answer, I now have a violent aversion to dusting and am constitutionally incapable of walking out of a bookstore empty-handed. An editor, writer, and blogger, I will finagle an invite to an author event whenever I can and I will snatch up reviewer copies of new books wherever I can. And, since we’re sharing, I do actually give a fuck about the Oxford comma.

Quite pleased to be here, and now that you know my creds, let’s be off and blogging…

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Julie Palmer-Hoffman is a freelance writer, editor and blogger. She thinks of London as something of a literary Shangri-La and prides herself on being a massive book geek. Julie writes for two blogs: The Londonist and Litro.

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