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SCOTT McCLOUD IN CONVERSATION
5th MARCH 2015 at 6pm.
ROOM G06/G07 ENGLISH FACULTY, 9 WEST ROAD
FREE ADMISSION; ALL WELCOME.
Scott McCloud, cartoonist and seminal theorist – the ‘Aristotle of Comics’ –will discuss his new book The Sculptor with John Lennard.
‘the best graphic novel I’ve read in years. It’s about art and love and why we keep on trying. It will break your heart.’ Neil Gaiman
‘a wonderful testament to the power of comics’ The Independent
‘a brilliant and gripping book. As absorbing as a Victorian novel in terms of character and moral ideas, it somehow manages to be both an inquiry into the subjectivity of art and a zippy portrait of 21st-century hipster urban life. Plus, it’s a super classy homage to all things Marvel. Quite how McCloud pulls this off, I don’t know.’ The Guardian
Clare Hall Literary Talks Rod Mengham and Ian Patterson, poets West Court, Clare Hall Friday 20 Feb. 6 pm Wine will be served. http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/literary-talks/ --
Saturday 25 October: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Law Faculty, LG19,10 West Road, CB3 9DZ
Booker prize-winning author Ben Okri will look back at his writing career with Tim Cribb, an English Fellow at the University of Cambridge who was a visiting lecturer at the universities of Ife and Kwara State in Nigeria. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
Part of the Festival of Ideas
‘Ali Smith’s How to Be Both would also have made a worthy, very different winner, but this [The Narrow Road to the Deep North ]is in some ways a weightier book’, says Justine Jordan in The Guardian – but does that mean ‘great themes’ (as Grayling claims) or sheer page-numbers (Flanagan =464 pages; Smith = 384) – or do we assume one requires the other?
The first MATERIALS reading this term, and the tenth in the series overall, will take place on Thursday 23rd October at the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty Basement, Cambridge, 7.30 for 8pm. DELL OLSEN will read alongside the visiting American poet JUDITH GOLDMAN, who is in town for one month only. ~~~ Dell Olsen's publications include 'Book of the Fur' (2000), 'Secure Portable Space' (2004) and 'punk faun' (2012). "designed for everyday life but mostly out of range / between various small fires nightly on TV a dog". Judith Goldman has published 'Vocodor' (2001), 'Deathstars/rico-chet' (2006) and 'The Disposessions' (2009). "I died of a chief delight. fare thee well, crackpot." ~~~ Copies of work by the poets and various other small-press material will be available on a book-table on the night. BYOB. Contact David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) or Lisa Jeschke (ljj28@cam.ac.uk) for any further questions.
The University of Lincoln, UK, will host its third biennial What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English conference from Monday 14th – Thursday 17th July 2014.
Alice Munro: Short Stories and the Nobel Prize
Thursday 3 July
1.15pm, Meeting Room, Clare Hall
You might like to read some of the stories in Munro’s Lying Under the Apple Tree (2104) in advance, but this is not essential.
A conversation about Munro between Dame Gillian Beer, Honorary Fellow and Louise Ells, Anglia Ruskin University.
Part of Clare Hall’s Canada Week
http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/seminarsevents/cultural-celebrations/canada-week/
Tuesday 24 June, 5:00pm – 6.30pm,
Room GR06, English Faculty, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
Ivan Vladislavić will read from his latest novel, The Restless Supermarket.
The event is FREE. NO BOOKING necessary. Wine will be served afterwards…