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Picture: Laugharne Festival 2018 with Garth Cartwright on records and record shops

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April 9, 2018 · 6:59 pm

Laugharne Festival 2018: Saturday 7th April, 2pm with Garth Cartwright on records and record shops

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https://www.thelaugharneweekend.com

 

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Picture: Stoke Newington Library display

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March 31, 2018 · 7:41 pm

Picture: At Metal, Chalkwell

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Thanks to Kelly Buckley

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Event: Being a Writer at the Essex Book Festival, Friday 23 March, 3pm, Metal, Chalkwell Park, Southend

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Being a Writer – Travis Elborough and Helen Gordon – PART OF OUR MONTH-LONG POP-UP ESSEX WRITERS HOUSE – MARCH 2018′

‘The anthology Being A Writer is an inspiring assemblage of wit, wisdom and hard-won practical advice from some of the world’s greatest authors musing on the art of writing and how they came to define themselves as writers. Join its editors, the authors Helen Gordon and Travis Elborough, as they present an entertaining survey of the pleasures and pitfalls of the writing life from the time of Samuel Johnson and Grub Street to the age of silicon roundabout and Lorrie Moore.
Tickets: FREE – but booking essential
http://www.metalculture.com/event/southend-pop-up-essex-writers-house-being-a-writer-travis-elborough-and-helen-gordon/

 

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Picture: Atlas of Improbable Places in the Stoke Newington Bookshop window

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March 13, 2018 · 12:48 pm

Picture: A Seance with David Seabrook, with Rachel Cooke, Neil Belton, Iain Sinclair and Paul Tickell at Burley Fisher Books

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Pictures thanks to Anne Pigalle and Andy Miller

 

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Read: Book of the Week: Atlas of Improbable Places, The Idler magazine

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Book of the Week: Atlas of Improbable Places

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Event: Idler Dinner, with Rose Wilby, Travis Elborough and Hugo Martin, The Elgin, London, W9 1NJ, 28 February, 7.30 pm

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‘This month, we are delighted to welcome comedian Rosie Wilby, who’ll be asking whether monogamy is dead, and author and anthologist Travis Elborough, who’ll be revealing the loucher side of the twentieth century via some of the diaries left behind. Singer-songwriter Hugo Martin will round off the evening with some songs from his new album, Six before a Seven.’

 

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https://idler.co.uk/product/idler-dinners-rosie-wilby-travis-elborough-hugo-martin/

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Read: Tales of Two Londons: Stories from a Fractured City

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I have a piece on Victoria Park’s model boating club in this new anthology of London writing also featuring the likes of Ali Smith, Iain Sinclair and Lynsey Hanley and edited by Claire Armistead.

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http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/tales-two-londons-edited-claire-armitstead/

 

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