Talk
From Situationism to Sabremetrics: Experiments for the Novel in the Age of Big Data
8 Jan 2015
Event times
6:30pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 56 Artillery Lane
- London
- E1 7LS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Liverpool Street
Event map
Helen DeWitt discusses her writing practice, with reference to collaboration, works-in-progress, multilingual texts, the concealed dynamics of commodification, the machinery of cultural capital and the pioneering work of Edward Tufte. A selection from her personal library will be on display.
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Helen Dewitt is a Berlin-based writer. She is the author of The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax/Chatto & Windus, 2000), Lightning Rods (New Directions, 2011/And Other Stories, 2012), and, with Ilya Gridneff, of Your Name Here (in limbo since 2006).
