Weekly literary event listings plus book reviews, London poems and spoken word happenings.
TV Troll is hyperventilating right about now. Footballers Wive$ (Thur 9pm ITV1) is back on for a fifth series!!! YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!! (We know, we know, multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind, but … FOOTBALLERS WIVE$!!!! Oops, there we go again.) For …
How did we miss the fact that it’s National Pub Week? Ok, so CAMRA have a bit of way to go before they lose the beard-stroking, ‘I’ve got my own tankard I have’ image but with the onslaught of crappy, generic chain drinkeries we need …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Should we bother copyrighting our work in the age of the internet? Can a Booker Prize-winning novelist be wild? Are George W. Bush’s abuses limited …
We reviewed Sea Otters Gambolling in the Wild, Wild Surf last week and as promised we tracked down its author John Bennett for a quick chinwag. Sitting in the NFT cafe we had lots of filmy types as a backdrop while we spoke loudly of …
If you hadn’t noticed cartoons are big news right now. And while no one’s accusing the people behind London’s very first Cartoon Museum of orchestrating the recent controversy as a bit of free publicity, they couldn’t really have picked a better time to open their …
English Heritage, the scoundrels, keep trying to block new skyscraper proposals; but they are good for something. With the Institute of Historical Research, EH are embarking on a project to give free public access to the epic Survey of London. The survey was founded in …
We took the time out yesterday to wander up to the Tate Britain for the opening of a new exhibition: Gothic Nightmares – Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination. It’s one of the most interesting exhibits that the Tate has put together in ages and …
An interesting little story buried away in the pages of the icSouthlondon site would seem to suggest that the borough of Lambeth is about to go seriously broke. The story dates back to the 80s when a Government loan was taken by the Greater London …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. We’re pretty much just gonna get right to it this week…See below for your events, your new releases, and your news of dead and fake …
We wanted to review Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch as part of our fresh commitment to do a tad more reading on Londonist in 2006, but every time we picked up the book we kept having visions of girls in gasmasks asking us if we …
We picked up this book at lunchtime yesterday and finished it later the same evening, desperate to see how it resolved, but mostly curious as to what the deal was with the guy having sex with the otter. That kind of thing plays on our …
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