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Craig Taylor
Feb 29 2012 7:30 pm
Wednesday, February 29, 7:30 PM
Author Craig Taylor presents his new book, Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now--As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
Featuring Special Guests: Matt Weiland, editor at W.W. Norton
Oliver Burkeman of "The Guardian"
Rosie Dastgir, author of A Small Fortune
James Hannaham, author of God Says No
Hari Kunzru, author of Gods Without Men
Rebecca Mead of "The New Yorker"
David Rakoff, author of Fraud
Felix Salmon of "Reuters"
and Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All
Craig Taylor and Matt Weiland come to Greenlight with a number of special guests to present Taylor's new book, Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now – As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long For It. London—the real city, not the place visited by thousands upon thousands of tourists—is a lively, exciting, and confounding metropolis that defies easy characterization. Its six hundred square miles are home to 7.5 million people, each of whom has a story to tell. In his fresh, often surprising, narrative portrait, Londoners, Craig Taylor follows in the footsteps of oral historians such as Studs Terkel, painting an epic-scaled composite canvas of the great city through the words of its inhabitants on the eve of the 2012 Olympic Games. Taylor, a writer, playwright, and editor, spent five years interviewing a vast array of London denizens, turning 950,000 words of raw material into a compulsively readable 120,000-word narrative featuring the observations and experiences of ninety disparate souls who together embody some essential truths about modern London. Craig Taylor and a few special guests will discuss and give dramatic readings on London; the good and the bad! For anyone who loves London or loves to hate it, this event is for expats and Anglophiles alike.
Location:
- Street:
- 686 Fulton Street
- City:
- Brooklyn ,
- Province:
- New York
- Postal Code:
- 11217
- Country:
- United States
