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 MIAMI (AP) - Poetry and music have been cut and there will be no parade to kick off the Miami Book Fair International as in years past. But one of the nation's leading literary festivals isn't giving up on readers in a bad economy.
The fair that began in 1984 just won't quit: Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to throng the tented stalls of downtown Miami for the 2009 fair, which opens Sunday and runs through Nov. 15. And once again, organizers have amassed a list of acclaimed writers to give readings — Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk among them.
Never mind that this book fair has had to make do with cutbacks and state and county funding. Last year's budget was about $1.7 million and this year that was cut by $400,000.
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