Clive James, Dave Eggers to open MWF

The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced authors Clive James and Dave Eggers will launch this year's festival on Friday 24 August. James will discuss his latest work Cultural Amnesia (Picador) in the festival's opening keynote address at 7pm. Dave Eggers, the US author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Picador) and...