Literary Calendar
Events for August 2013
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Emily’s Walking Book Club reads Breakfast with the Nikolides, Daunt BookshopEmily’s Walking Book Club reads Breakfast with the Nikolides, Daunt Bookshop
August 4, 2013 @ 11:30 pm
Join other book-lovers for a walk on Hampstead Heath to discuss Rumer Godden’s coming-of-age classic. Fleeing Nazi France, Louise brings her two daughters to India to be reunited with her husband. Here, eleven-year-old Emily finds herself caught in a tangled web of adult relationships, as fragile and troubled as the family’s feelings towards India, their [&hellip |
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Robert Adam on The Globalisation of Modern Architecture, FoylesRobert Adam on The Globalisation of Modern Architecture, Foyles
August 6, 2013 @ 6:30 pm
Based on the principle that design unavoidably follows social change, politics and economics, Robert Adam’s analysis in The Globalisation of Modern Architecture casts a new light on recent building. In Adam’s view, globalisation is driving out the uniqueness and character of cities and buildings, reducing them to a monotonous regularity. But does architecture and do architects nowadays [&hellip |
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Rachel Kushner in conversation with Nina Power, LRBRachel Kushner in conversation with Nina Power, LRB
August 22, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Rachel Kushner’s new novel The Flamethrowers takes place in the art world of the 1970s, and explores themes of gender, terrorism and authenticity. Naomi Fry wrote in the LRB ‘Kushner isn’t only a novelist. She is also a regular contributor of sharp criticism to such free-thinking American publications as Artforum, and however good her stories and sparkling her prose, she [&hellip The White Review No.8 launch, FoylesThe White Review No.8 launch, Foyles
August 22, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
The second launch event for The White Review No. 8 will be taking place at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, on Thursday 22 August from 6.30-8.30pm. ‘Writing by women simply isn’t read, received, or written about in the way writing by men is,’ writes Lauren Elkin in her essay ‘Barking from the Margins: on écriture féminine’, featured in The [&hellip |
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Margaret Atwood, Southbank CentreMargaret Atwood, Southbank Centre
August 27, 2013 @ 7:30 pm
Margaret Atwood discusses the hugely-anticipated final novel in her dystopian trilogy. A man-made plague has swept the earth but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers – a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Told with wit, dizzying imagination and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam is unpredictable, chilling and hilarious. It takes us [&hellip |
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The Hatchards Bloomsbury Book Club with Margaret Atwood at the Bloomsbury InstituteThe Hatchards Bloomsbury Book Club with Margaret Atwood at the Bloomsbury Institute
August 30, 2013 @ 7:00 am - 5:00 pm
Margaret Atwood will be at the Bloomsbury Institute to talk about MaddAddam, the hugely-anticipated final novel in the dystopian trilogy that began with Oryx and Crakeand The Year of the Flood. In a little enclave called the cob house a motley crew of survivors live alongside the green-eyed Crakers – a gentle, inquisitive species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, [&hellip Teju Cole talks to Max Liu, LRBTeju Cole talks to Max Liu, LRB
August 30, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
On a rare visit to London, New York-Lagos writer Teju Cole will be at the bookshop to talk about his work. His novel Open City, the narrative of a young Nigerian-German psychiatrist as he walks around New York and, briefly, Brussels, has received unalloyed praise, won the PEN/Hemingway award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje prize [&hellip |
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