Literary Calendar
Events for July 2013
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Memoir Writing Workshop with Damian Barr, Bloomsbury InstituteMemoir Writing Workshop with Damian Barr, Bloomsbury Institute
July 4, 2013 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Everybody has a story to tell. However seemingly ordinary or extraordinary your life is – or was. The contemporary memoir is tellingly popular. To make readers care as much about your story as you do, you must have the finesse of fiction. This intensive two hour workshop with columnist, writer, playwright and salonnière Damian Barr [&hellip |
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Emma Donoghue in conversation with Sir Michael Rutter, RSLEmma Donoghue in conversation with Sir Michael Rutter, RSL
July 7, 2013 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
This event is organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and is being held as part of the 2013 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. Is the understanding of children a science or an art? Emma Donoghue’s seventh novel, Room, which has been garlanded with prizes and has sold over a million copies, explores the mind of a five-year-old, [&hellip |
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Antonia Fraser at the Idler AcademyAntonia Fraser at the Idler Academy
July 10, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 10 July, 6.30pm-8.30pm. Cost: £20 (includes cocktails, nibbles and £2 discount on the book). Historian Antonia Fraser comes to the Idler Academy for a salon of learned discussion based on her new book, Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832, which the critics have praised as a thrilling read. Enjoy intelligent conversation [&hellip |
The Letters of Italo Calvino: with Michael Wood and Martin McLaughlin, LRBThe Letters of Italo Calvino: with Michael Wood and Martin McLaughlin, LRB
July 11, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Princeton’s new selection of over 600 of Italo Calvino’s letters stretches from the end of the Second World War to the author’s death in 1985 and contains, among many other jewels, his letter of resignation from the Italian Communist Party, eyewitness reports of the Parisévènements of 1968, and an account of a meeting with Che Guevara. [&hellip Holland House: A Talk by Linda Kelly at Lutyens & RubinsteinHolland House: A Talk by Linda Kelly at Lutyens & Rubinstein
July 11, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Linda Kelly brings to life the colourful world of Holland House, providing a vivid portrait of London’s greatest political salon. In the first thirty years of the nineteenth century – when the Whig party were almost constantly out of office, the home of the third Lord Holland became the unofficial centre of the Opposition. Combining politics [&hellip |
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Terry Eagleton: Across the Pond, LRBTerry Eagleton: Across the Pond, LRB
July 16, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Join Terry Eagleton on a journey through the language, geography and national character of the United States. To mark the publication of his new book Across the Pond, Terry will be in in conversation with Christian Lorentzen, Senior Editor at theLRB (and an American). Henry Hitchings writes: ‘Terry Eagleton has a gift for the kind of generalisations [&hellip Philipp Meyer discusses The Son at Lutyens & RubinsteinPhilipp Meyer discusses The Son at Lutyens & Rubinstein
July 16, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Philipp Meyer’s debut novel, American Rust, was a significant critical success both in the US and UK with comparisons made to the writing of Steinbeck, Faulkner and McCarthy. The Son is an epic, panoramic novel that maps the violence of the American West through the lives of an ambitious family, as resilient and dangerous as the land [&hellip Writers Talk at ZSL London Zoo – Ruth Padel on hummingbird, bleeding heart dove and amethyst starlingWriters Talk at ZSL London Zoo – Ruth Padel on hummingbird, bleeding heart dove and amethyst starling
July 16, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - July 17, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
RUTH PADEL Ruth Padel is a British poet and writer with close connections to conservation, wildlife, Greece and music. She has published a novel, eight works of non-fiction and eight poetry collections, most recently The Mara Crossing, which mixes poems and prose to explore migration: how cells migrate in our bodies, and animals, birds and [&hellip |
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Attention! Joshua Cohen in conversation with Brian Dillon, LRBAttention! Joshua Cohen in conversation with Brian Dillon, LRB
July 23, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Joshua Cohen was born in New Jersey in 1980 and is the author of five works of fiction. Of one of them, Witz, the LRB’s Christian Lorentzen wrote (in the New York Observer) ‘[It is] the sort of postmodern epic that arrives like a comet about once every decade, likeInfinite Jest or Gravity’s Rainbow.’ In Attention! a (short) history(Notting Hill Editions) [&hellip |
David Goodhart on The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration, FoylesDavid Goodhart on The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration, Foyles
July 24, 2013 @ 6:30 pm
David Goodhart argues that liberal thinking on immigration has, in recent years, promoted two contradictory ideals. On the one hand there is the ideal of ‘solidarity’, or the desire that people in society, wherever they originate from, should be unified by one common purpose. And on the other hand there is the ‘diversity’ argument, which [&hellip Judith Mackrell in conversation with Sarah Churchwell about Flappers, Daunt BookshopJudith Mackrell in conversation with Sarah Churchwell about Flappers, Daunt Bookshop
July 24, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
For many young women, the 1920′s was a promise of liberty: they shortened their skirts and shingled their hair, smoked, drank, took drugs and claimed sexual freedoms.In Flappers, celebrated dance critic Judith Mackrell follows six women – Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka – who, between them, [&hellip |
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