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Writing in the context of an upcoming Byron Bay Writers' Festival, Malcolm Knox argues that authors attend literary festivals not for the potential commercial benefits of bookselling, but for opportunities such as 'a break from solitude, a free holiday, a moment, literally, in the sun.'