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Traffic news for the bus.

A1 minor Location : The A1 southbound exit slip to the A1139 . Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 08:45 and 09:00 on 13 May 2016. Reason : Congestion.
A14 minor Location : The A14 eastbound at junction J33 Cambridge. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 08:45 and 09:00 on 13 May 2016. Delay : There are currently delays of 10 minutes against expected traffic. Reason : Congestion.
 A69 minor Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 09:30 and 09:45 on 13 May 2016. Location : The A14 westbound entry slip at junction J34 Fen Ditton . Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 09:30 and 09:45 on 13 May 2016. Lanes Closed : There are lane closures. Reason : Obstruction caused by a broken down Heavy Goods Vehicle.
E16 + E6 unclear Status: No reports lately. The event is expected to already have cleared up on 13 May 2016. Location: E16 and/or E6, unknown Bus is travelling on one of them. No delay: The traffic has been interrupted but is supposed to run smoothly again. Reason: An accident happened on a trial track of Google Inc. near the highway. A test of a self-driving car was conducted. Due to several reasons it ended in the car swerving into the main road, leaving the passenger hurt but still alive. The person testing the automated car was allegedly an author. Read more.
 M62  none  Status : Currently Active. Lane Closures : Lane three is closed. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 10:00 and 10:15 on 13 May 2016. Location : The M62 westbound at junction J27 . Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 09:30 and 09:45 on 13 May 2016. Lanes Closed : There is one of three lanes closed. Reason : Road traffic collision.

Partners in CROWD – meine drei lyrischen ichs

The CROWD is on the move – please make yourself at home!
While others may get by with a little help from their friends, the CROWD Omnibus Reading Tour would not be taking place at all without them. In this portrait series, we would like to introduce you to those who have allowed us to fill in the gaps on the map and bring the whole of Europe together in the name of literature. From May to August 2016, our associated partners will be hosts, havens, and potential life savers for over 100 authors as they snake their way through 15 different European countries and over 40 cities. We asked our partners to tell us about their work in their respective regions; their vision for the CROWD network, and the significance of literature for them both within and beyond Europe’s borders. This is what Tristan Marquardt from the reading series meine drei lyrischen ichs said:
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One is a CROWD – Alexander Micheuz

Literature as a European mother tongue: In our series “One is a CROWD”, we introduce you to authors from all over Europe who will be involved in the CROWD omnibus reading tour, taking place from May to July 2016, featuring 100 authors who will be travelling through 15 European countries. We asked them questions about text production, reception and mediation. In case you were wondering what a literary activist from Graz looks like, meet Alexander Micheuz

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One is a CROWD – Birger Emanuelsen

Literature as a European mother tongue: In our series “One is a CROWD”, we introduce you to authors from all over Europe who will be involved in the CROWD omnibus reading tour, taking place from May to July 2016, featuring 100 authors who will be travelling through 15 European countries. We asked them three questions about text production, reception and mediation. In case you were wondering what a literary activist in Oslo looks like, meet Birger Emanuelsen!

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Hartmut Abendschein: e-books, Rorschach-Test, 50 % Flarf

INTERVIEW: In her article from October 2015 for one of the major German newspapers F.A.Z., Elke Heinemann writes that you see the future of literary weblog publishing not in the curated e-book as a form of  assemblage of rhizomatic texts but in no less than “the internet” itself. This already sounds outdated enough, looking at bots, Twitter, Instagram, and literature apps and games. How do you keep up? Do you maybe consider yourself as “first generation”? What are blogs today? Continue reading Hartmut Abendschein: e-books, Rorschach-Test, 50 % Flarf

One is a CROWD – Maxime Coton

Literature as a European mother tongue: In our series “One is a CROWD”, we introduce you to authors from all over Europe who will be involved in the CROWD omnibus reading tour, taking place from May to July 2016, featuring 100 authors who will be travelling through 15 European countries. We asked them three questions about text production, reception and mediation. In case you were wondering what a literary activist in Anderlecht looks like, meet Maxime Coton!

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Tom Chivers: UK publishing and intimate spots in urban landscapes

Based in London, UK, Tom Chivers is running a small publishing house called ‘Penned in the Margins’  which brings together a whole range of different activities under one roof, from book publishing to spoken word performances. Risky and venturous, the arts producer Tom Chivers shows what the future of publishing can look like – let me tell you, it is not in the digital world.
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One is a CROWD – Lilly Jäckl

Literature as a European mother tongue: In our series “One is a CROWD”, we introduce you to authors from all over Europe who will be involved in the CROWD omnibus reading tour, taking place from May to July 2016, featuring 100 authors who will be travelling through 15 European countries. We asked them three questions about text production, reception and mediation. In case you were wondering what a literary activist between Berlin and Graz looks like, meet Lilly Jäckl

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