When:
Thursday, May 15, 2014
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Kathy Daniels
(847) 491-7294
Group: English Department
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Public Events Today:
A reading by author Geoff Dyer.
Geoff is the author of four novels: Paris Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory, and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; two collections of essays, Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room; and six genre-defying titles: But Beautiful, The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It, The Ongoing Moment and Zona, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker.
A collection of essays from the last twenty years entitled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition was published in the US in April 2011 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
A new book will be published in the US and UK in May 2014: Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H W Bush (US: Pantheon, UK: Visual Editions).