Running throughout the festival weekend, The Lived Book, part of Bibliophantics, takes over Mildred’s Complex(ity) as a living, shifting encounter with books, reading, and literary possession. Drawing on Mildred’s Lane’s several libraries, the project invites visitors into a space where books are not simply shelved, but rearranged and reimagined.
As part of Deep Water Literary Festival, the weekend will include gatherings for readers and writers, alongside an appearance by Asti Hustvedt on the eve of the festival, Thursday June 18 at 6pm. In Hustvedt’s contribution, prompted in part by the death of her brother-in-law Paul Auster, she explores what it means to “get lost” in a book, describing reading as a form of mediumship: a strange collaboration between reader and writer, the living and the dead.
