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September 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 278 – Teju Cole: Blind Spot, Wellington, 2018

Most days I think about Teju Cole’s book Blind Spot (and how wonderful it is). And sometimes I remember how lucky I was to see him not just once but twice in the same weekend. Just recently I found the stub for that first show – and remembered that it was slightly derailed by tech […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Author, Author Talk, Blind Spot, Book, Chat, Conversation, Critic, Interview, Live Event, Live Gig, NZ Festival, Photographs, Q & A, Stub, Stubs, Stubs is an occasional feature here at Off The Tracks – looking back through the ticket-stub box and remembering how the show went down., Stubs: # 278, Stubs: # 278 – Teju Cole: Blind Spot, Talk, Teju Cole, Wellington, Wellington 2018, Writer, Writers and Readers ·

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March 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers & Readers: CK Stead – In Full Stride

CK Stead: In Full Stride Circa 2, Circa Theatre Saturday, March 10 This Writers & Readers session, featured CK Stead in conversation with Steve Braunias. The reason for the talk was Stead’s latest novel, Necessary Angel; reviewed well, largely, received well, Braunias joked in his intro that it should be boring, shouldn’t work but somehow […]
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March 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers & Readers: Teju Cole – Blind Spot

Teju Cole: Blind Spot Circa One; Circa Theatre Saturday, March 10 This Writers & Readers session was Teju Cole in conversation with Paula Morris. Chiefly the discussion was about his excellent new book Blind Spot but from there Cole found his way to talking about his work in a more general sense, his motivations, his […]
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March 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers & Readers: Francis Spufford & Elizabeth Knox Talk About God

Francis Spufford & Elizabeth Knox Talk About God Circa One, Circa Theatre Saturday, March 10 This Writers & Readers session featured a conversation about God between long-time correspondents Francis Spufford (UK) and Elizabeth Knox (NZ). It was, if you’ll pardon the pun, a spirited conversation. It was lively, funny and often irritating. For a start, […]
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March 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers & Readers: Teju Cole – Favourite Photographers

Teju Cole: Favourite Photographers Renoulf Foyer, MFC Friday, March 9 This Writers & Readers session was a lecture/presentation by Teju Cole where he talked about his favourite photographers. Teju Cole is a writer and photographer – an essayist, novelist and critic. He has a role at the New York Times as Photography Critic and has […]
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March 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers & Readers: Bloody Difficult Women

Bloody Difficult Women Circa 2, Circa Theatre Friday, March 9 This Writers & Readers session, dubbed Bloody Difficult Women, featured Annaleese Jochems (author of Baby) and Kirsten McDougall (author of Tess and also The Invisible Rider) in conversation with fellow novelist Catherine Robertson. A spirited discussion emerged, though Robertson was far too dominant, bringing the […]
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March 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers & Readers: Lloyd Jones – The Cage

Lloyd Jones: The Cage Renouf Foyer, MFC Friday, March 9 For this Writers & Readers event it was Lloyd Jones in conversation with Australian writer Charlotte Wood. The discussion centring around Jones’ new novel, The Cage. He was there under slight duress, a head-cold or some such, but he battled on and through it –  […]
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September 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Litcrawl 2017: Program Announced

Litcrawl is the little Wellington writing festival that could. In fact it did. And still is. Here we are now nearing its fourth iteration – Litcrawl 2017 will run across November 10-12 and will feature local, national and international names in literature. As with previous years the festival seeks to create boutique events, to place […]
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March 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers Week: Anna Smaill – Where Music Reigns

Anna Smaill: Where Music Reigns Embassy Theatre Thursday, March 10 For this Writers Week event it was Anna Smaill in conversation with Kate De Goldi, discussing Smaill’s novel, The Chimes. Thoughtfully, De Goldi also included discussion of Smaill’s wonderful first book, her volume of poetry, The Violinst in Spring, prompting a reading from it to […]
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