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Travelling beyond the borders of Baku through fiction

The twelfth Baku fair ran October twenty-first to twenty-seventh with thirty-two countries and honored Parinoush Saniee and Darren Simpson; readers vote for their favorite author online.

On air: Chip Darnell and Gloria Vance on BBN After Hours
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Photo: See above. Compilation by Interfase · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThirty-two countries took part in the Baku International Book Fair, which ended October twenty-seventh, and its motto is: Life is bigger than a screen.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorLovely motto. So how do readers pick the Most Read Author for twenty twenty-six from fifty local writers?

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOnline poll. The one real world has a login.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo life is bigger than a screen, but the ballot fits on one just fine?

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