A Canadian View of the Sydney Writers' Festival

From the Globe and Mail... In Canada it seems, not only does every self-respecting city have a literary festival, so do most hamlets and resort towns. So why then isn't there a literary festival blog? (Well, there is, now...). I was at the Sydney Festival myself, and I must agree with this reviewer, that the outstanding performer of readings from his own work was the Canadian Brian McAdam, reading from his debut novel, Some Great Thing.