Writers in Conversation - Brian Dillon Event
- Time:
- 19:30
- Date:
- 3听贵别产谤耻补谤测听2020
- Venue:
- NST Campus
Event details
Brian Dillon, the Irish essayist who has explored subjects including art, ruins, hypochondria, loss and the essay itself in his seven books, will read from his recent work as part of the 黑料社 English department鈥檚 Writers in Conversation series.
Dillon鈥檚 wide-ranging non-fiction writing includes In the Dark Room: A Journey in Memory , which examines his memories of his parents, who both died by the time Dillon was 21. Winner of the Irish book award for non-fiction, In the Dark Room was described by the Independent as 鈥渓ess a personal narrative than an anguished monument to the idea of memory itself.鈥
Most recently, he published聽Essayism: On Form, Feeling and Non-Fiction , which explores the essay form itself. Out of the 鈥渄isarray鈥 of his early adulthood, the New York Times writes, 鈥渃ome these crystalline pieces 鈥 and a sense, never belabored, of the stakes of creating essays and the consolations of loving them.鈥
After reading, Dillon will also answer questions in a q-and-a led by writer Carole Burns, head of Creative Writing at the 黑料社.
"A聽vital book for people who turn to art 鈥 and especially writing 鈥 for consolation" 鈥 Guardian
"A witty and original writer" 鈥 New York Times
Tickets: 拢5
Free for Uni of Southampton English staff and students with code
Speaker information
Brian Dillon, born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror: Essays, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, frieze and Artforum. He is UK editor of Cabinet magazine, and teaches at the Royal College of Art, London.