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LOVE AND FAME: SUSIE BOYT
FRIDAY MAY 18 –2.30-3.30PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
The Times has said of Susie Boyt
that “she writes with great precision and wisdom about the human heart under duress”. Her six novels include Love & Fame (a complex and witty exploration of grief), and The Small Hours (a psychological study set in
a nursery school). The acclaimed author and Financial Times columnist has also recently edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James. Her much-loved memoir My Judy Garland Life examines, love,
loss and hero-worship through the prism of the troubled star. Boyt is
the daughter of the late artist Lucian Freud and great-granddaughter of Sigmund. Join her for a discussion of life, art and the landscape of human feeling, with Kate De Goldi. Supported by Platinum Bold Patrons Josephine & Ross Green.
28 GENERAL EVENT
ON WAGNER
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 2.30-3.30PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
Controversy has never ceased to
swirl around the composer Richard Wagner, who died in 1883 and cast a huge shadow over the 20th century. His in uence was felt across the arts – Baudelaire, Proust, Mann, Kandinsky, Woolf, and Katherine Mans eld all felt his impact – and notoriously inspired Hitler. The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross is completing a book entitled Wagnerism: Art in the Shadow of Music; in this lecture he previews his ndings. Presented in partnership with Chamber Music New Zealand.
29 FREE EVENT
STANDING UPRIGHT HERE
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 2.30-3.30PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
The impact of Allen Curnow, one
of the de ning voices of NZ and international literature in the 20th century, is re ected in two major publications: the biography Simply by Sailing in a New Direction by Terry Sturm, and the Collected Poems edited
by Elizabeth Caf n. John Newton, author of Hard Frost, part one of a three-part trilogy of NZ literary history, and Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted author of Salt Picnic, Patrick Evans – who taught Curnow at university for many years – join Caf n to calibrate the legacy of this iconic writer.
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FREE EVENT
FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION
MINING A LIFE
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 2.30-3.20PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Essayist Durga Chew-Bose, ction award winner and 2018 Ockham NZ Book Awards longlisted Catherine Chidgey, auto- ction star Karl Ove Knausgård and poet Anna Livesey share ten minute readings from work which takes as its source material their own domestic lives, introduced by Anne Kennedy.
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