Another Great Day at Sea: Geoff Dyer
By London Review Bookshop
Date and time
Wed, 9 Jul 2014 19:00 - 20:30 GMT+1
Location
London Review Bookshop
14 Bury Pl London WC1A 2JL United KingdomRefund Policy
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Description
Geoff Dyer’s latest book Another Great Day at Sea (Visual Editions), illustrated with the photographs of Chris Steele-Perkins, recounts daily life aboard an American aircraft carrier the USS George H. W. Bush, on which Dyer spent time as a kind of writer in residence. Philip Hoare wrote of it in the Guardian ‘This is beautiful writing. It is urgent, funny, utterly in-the-moment and achingly honest. … Like the captain, like the crew, like the ship, Dyer's superb book constantly reiterates its excellence. It virtually stands to attention on its own.’ Geoff Dyer will be at the shop to read from his book, and to answer questions about the project
Gruff Rhys will be in conversation with Iain Sinclair, whose own American odyssey, American Smoke, is released in paperback by Penguin this month. - See more at: http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events/2014/7/gruff-rhys-american-interior#sthash.92lnTnan.dpuf
Gruff Rhys will be in conversation with Iain Sinclair, whose own American odyssey, American Smoke, is released in paperback by Penguin this month. - See more at: http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events/2014/7/gruff-rhys-american-interior#sthash.92lnTnan.dpuf