{"id":196,"date":"2011-02-06T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2011-02-06T01:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T01:03:00","slug":"this-business-of-books-klf-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/this-business-of-books-klf-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"This Business of Books &#8211; KLF 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The Karachi Literature Festival (5<sup>th<\/sup> and 6<sup>th<\/sup>  February 2011) has followed fast on the footsteps of its counterpart in  Jaipur and, some say, has held its own against larger, better funded  literary events elsewhere in the sub-continent. With an impressive array  of authors in attendance even in its nascent stages (Kamila Shamsie,  Daniyal Mueenuddin, Ali Sethi, Hussain Naqvi, Mohammad Hanif and Mohsin  Hamid, to name a handful), the festival has boldly sent out an important  message to the literary community within and outside Pakistan: We can  do this, and we can do it well.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The  festival is being attended by a contingent from DWL, mainly: Hamdan  Malik, Jalal Habib Curmally, Batool Habib, Afia Aslam, Faraz Mirza and  Madiha Riaz. Perhaps more than a learning experience, this has been a  fantastic networking opportunity for DWL and Papercuts. We have  distributed our signature yellow flyers promoting Vol. 7 and have  brought the magazine to the attention of many authors at the event,  ranging from the newbies on the scene to the biggest names in the  industry.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Keep  watching this space for news on how the festival went! We&#8217;re going to  start compiling it for you as soon as it rolls to an end on Sunday, the  6th of February.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karachi Literature Festival (5th and 6th February 2011) has followed fast on the footsteps of its counterpart in Jaipur and, some say, has held its own against larger, better funded literary events elsewhere in the sub-continent. With an impressive array of authors in attendance even in its nascent stages (Kamila Shamsie, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Ali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[85,79,80,81,84,83,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}