Reading and the City: a weekly discussion group looking at representations of cities in classic and contemporary writing, led by Writing and the City Fellow Tara McEvoy. Texts will be circulated a week in advance, and students are welcome to make suggestions and bring other works to the table. In October we'll be reading:

Wed 12 Oct Robert Walser – from Berlin Stories

Wed 19 Oct Virginia Woolf – Street Haunting

Wed 26 Oct James Baldwin – Equal in Paris

Wed 2 Nov Joan Didion – Goodbye to All That

Wed 9 Nov George Perec – An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

Wed 16 Nov Jan Morris – from Hong Kong

Wed 23 Nov Ciaran Carson – from The Star Factory

Wed 30 Nov Orhan Pamuk – from Istanbul

Wed 7 Dec Suketu Mehta – from Maximum City

Wed 14 Dec  Ivan Vladislavic – from Portrait with Keys