Listen in to the podcast talk "Dreaming in Mongolian" at the Beijing International Literary Festival.

Audio and sound recording courtesy of the Bookworm.

7:36: Hello all. This is Matt Schrader, the Community (as well as Sports and Dining) editor of City Weekend Beijing, blogging to you live from “Dreaming ... Read more »

8:08: Hello all, this is Matt Schrader, CW's Community editor coming to you live from The Wolf Totem Book Launch at The Bookworm. The 'Worm is its typical buzzy self, with the usual crowd of well-coiffed, imminently stylish bibliophiles milling about. Everyone just finished up listening to a ... Read more »

6:34 | Rubbing our hands together The atmosphere is already a bubbling, excited anticipation. Judging from the crowd's demeanor, more is expected tonight than the festival has previously yielded. I note with curiosity that a staggering majority of the audience is female. Howard Goldblatt must be more than the ... Read more »

12:30 | Here we go But not yet.

12:40 | Intro/My favorite muse Fashionably late. I applaud this, as my computer lags, conspiring with the event. Rapid introductions given.

12:41 | Packs of three With haste, Su Xiaowei poses the question of the day to Liz Niven and Ouyang ... Read more »

Listen in to the podcast talk "The Power of Literature" at the Beijing International Literary Festival.

Audio and sound recording courtesy of the Bookworm.

7:03 | Landing Out of accordance with my expectations, I am the first to arrive. Why aren't the English-speaking masses of Beijing pushing and shoving ... Read more »

Listen in to the podcast talk "Sense of Place" at the Beijing International Literary Festival.

Audio and sound recording courtesy of the Bookworm.

7:45 | And we're off:

We are introduced to our two speakers. Rob Gifford, an NPR correspondent, has been going back and forth to China for ... Read more »

We turned up the heat on the City Weekend website during the Beijing International Literary Festival. Sitting in the back of the Bookworm or tucked away in the kitchen next to the mixing board, furiously typing away and using our Macbook’s Photobooth application as a discreet camera, we reported ... Read more »

Listen in to the podcast talk "Moral Ambiguity in Fiction" at the Beijing International Literary Festival.

Audio and sound recording courtesy of the Bookworm.

The drama and tension surrounding moral choice is the lifeblood of fiction. Two big literary thinkers debate the issues – are authors responsible for the moral choices ... Read more »

Click on the player below to listen to the podcast talk "In Conversation with Justin Hill".

Audio courtesy of the Glamour Bar. Sound recording by Steven Lee.

Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Award, and nominated as one of the Best Young British Novelists of 2003, come and hear what ... Read more »

Click on the player below to listen to the talk "Crime & Society" by crime writers Qiu Xiaolong and Catherine Sampson at the Beijing International Literary Festival.

Audio and sound recording courtesy of the Bookworm.

Does crime fiction set in China in particular allow readers to probe societal depths other genres ... Read more »

Click on the player below to listen to the "Beijing: Portrait of a City" book launch at the Beijing International Literary Festival or save the mp3 file to your computer here. Audio courtesy of the Bookworm.

Sound recording by Steven Lee at City Weekend.

10:24 I James walks off ... Read more »

Click on the player below to listen to Professor Barme's discussion on his new book, Forbidden City, at the Beijing International Literary Festival save the mp3 file to your computer here. Audio courtesy of the Bookworm.

4:24 | Over and out

It's over now. Jenny and Jeremy Goldkorn ... Read more »

As promised in City Weekend's Issue 5, we now have a pair of tickets to Dreaming in Mongolian for you to get your greedy little literary hands on, as well as tickets to A Conversation with Brian Keenan on Sunday evening.

First, the tickets to Mr. Man's event ... Read more »

Patience, grasshopper. We'll uploading something here just as soon as we can get our hands on it. Read more »

The BBILF is bringing some of the most interesting literary personalities in the world to Beijing two weeks of festivities. Check out the links below for in-depth interviews with some of the festival's best. Author biographies and photos are courtesy of The Bookworm.

Nury Vittachi: Click here for an ... Read more »

Nury Vittachi is a literary force in Asia. The founder of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival and the Man Asia Literary Prize, he'll be participating in the "Writers' Cabaret", "Storytelling Secrets Workshop", "Fact and Fiction", and "A Literary Dinner with Nury Vittachi".

CW: Do you think there's ... Read more »

Rob Gifford, who will be participating in the sessions "Sense of Place" and "Committing Journalism" at the festival, was kind enough to chat with CW's Sienna Parulis-Cook about the festival, the links between literature and journalism, and his own thoughts on Beijing's literary scene.

CW: How did you ... Read more »

Welcome to CW's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Bookworm International Literary Festival! First, here's what you really came here to see: PRIZES.

Click here to find out how you can win tickets to some of the second week's most interesting sessions, courtesy of CW and The Bookworm ... Read more »