Thursday 23 September, 6.30pm
Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA
Free, but booking essential.
The book pages of UK newspapers are under threat. Literary editors are facing huge changes in the way that they review books, yet at the same time our choice of reading matter is bigger than ever before. Whose recommendations can readers trust? Is the blogosphere a shot in the arm for reviewing culture or does democracy mean dumbing down? Join Sam Leith, former literary editor of The Daily Telegraph, Lynne Hatwell, aka top books blogger dovegreyreader, Erica Wagner, literary editor of The Times and John Mullan, Professor of English Literature at UCL, as they ask if there is there still a role for the professional literary critic. Chaired by Alex Clark.
First posted: Wednesday, September 1st, 2010.
