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Week in books: Reality Hunger to Ten Stories About Smoking

Jon Davis | Saturday 19 February, 2011 11:21

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Reality Hunger 11am Saturday 19th
Is the novel extinct? Has non-fiction and celebrity memoir filled the gap? For answers to those questions head to the Sheikh Zayed Theatre to hear Geoff Dyer, Robert Hudson and David Shields discuss the current state of fiction.
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE, Houghton St, London, WC2A 2AE. FREE

Yarn Daytime Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th
Get yourself down to the appropriately named Book club for this illustrationarium and zine workshop. Let the inner doodler in you out and learn how to incorporate story telling with pictures.
The Book Club 100 Leonard St, London, EC2A 4RH. FREE

Stuart Evers Launch 7.30pm Wednesday 23rd February
Watch as Stuart Evers’s new collection of poetry, ‘Ten Stories About Smoking’, is interpreted into film, theatre, music and spoken word by artists including The Strumpettes, Quattro Formaggio, Verity Flecknell, The Android Angel and Camila Fiori.
Queen of Hoxton, 1 Curtain Rd, London, EC2A 3JX. £5

Book Slam 7.30pm Thursday 24th
One of the big guns on the spoken word scene plays host to Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy and David Levithan with music from Eska.
The Tabernacle, Powis Square, London, W11 2AY. £10

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