Reading

A hundred short stories of a hundred conversations with a hundred strangers, each in a hundred words.

Relax with a good book this weekend in a pop-up library in Covent Garden piazza.

Do you remember learning to read? When were you last in a library for some quality time with a text?

Did you go the library on Saturday?

The bloke behind the alternative universe football, family and friends novel Kilburn Social Club is putting on a show. Them that know say it will be ace and you are guaranteed sexy mermaids knowledge. So here’s the skinny: Tall Tales at The Good Ship in …

James Ellroy, author of LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia, is reading from his latest novel Blood’s a Rover at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday. Blood’s a Rover is the final part of his ‘Underworld’ trilogy, and follows US political and social life from …

It’s been a play, now there’s a reading: The Doorbells of Florence will be presented by the author at Stanfords Travel bookshop tonight, 7.30pm and we’ve got a special offer for Londonist readers. Stanfords is one of the most delightful specialist bookshops in London and …

By sunstarr Our “bring it on approach” to sexing up libraries was bookishly bold but seems to have been borne out by the latest visitor figures that put 6 London libraries in the top 20 most visited in the UK. Croydon Central Library rocks 4th …

The book grocer’s coffers are chockfull of goodies this week, so let’s jump right in and get shopping… Monday: Crikey. Take a look at author and critic George Steiner’s publishing credits and you have to wonder whether the man has actually slept in the past …

Congratulations – you can read! (Presumably. Unless you just look at Londonist for the pictures.) Literacy is sexy. Hyper-literacy, even sexier. Or so we at Londonist tell ourselves as we don our Coke-bottle glasses and curl up each night with a bottle of wine and …