The 12th Book Forum has been underway in Lviv for two days, gathering some 600 participants, including over 290 publishing companies, 80 book distributors, 60 libraries, and dozens of other organizations connected with book publishing. The forum features presentations of various authors’ works, meetings with authors, roundtables, contests, literary festivals, and symposiums. On March 16, the Potocki Palace hosted a launch of two new books from The Day’s Library Series, The Day and Eternity of James Mace, and The Apocrypha of Klara Gudzyk. The new publications aroused considerable interest. According to Tetiana Zayats, a lecturer at Drohobych University, everyone who is genuinely concerned about the issue of a single Ukrainian Orthodox local church and ways to settle the current interconfessional conflicts will find the book by The Day journalist Klara Gudzyk extremely informative. James Mace’s collection of articles and columns is a chronicle of Ukrainian history in the 1930s, with a special emphasis on the Holodomor, a point brought up by members of the audience, including Lviv University professors Volodymyr Zdoroveha and Yosyp Los; People’s Artist of Ukraine Bohdan Kozak; writer Maria Matios, and others. Materials about the book launch, a review of The Day and Eternity of James Mace by Kostiantyn Rodyk, editor of The Book Review, and an article devoted to the memory of the outstanding scholar and journalist, James Mace, will be carried shortly by The Day.
