Events at the Shop
Iain Sinclair - Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Wednesday 11 March 2009
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire is a timely excavation of London’s East End. Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry; now, the Olympics seeks to complete the process – erasure disguised as ‘progress’. Iain Sinclair’s sold-out talk at the Bookshop covers the background to the writing of his documentary fiction, its roots in his first published work (also on Hackney), the origins of the title and subtitle, and some priceless Hackney anecdotes.
An Accidental Career Around a Fixed Geography
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“More of an Adventure Every Time I Go Out”
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Audience Questions
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Recorded and edited by Adrian Leibowitz and Brett Wilson
Common Custom:documentary & archive
Iain Sinclair is a writer, poet and film-maker and widely regarded as one of London’s greatest chroniclers. His many books include Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award), Landor’s Tower, Lights Out for the Territory, Radon Daughters and London Orbital. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.
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