BOOK EVENT/TALK ‘The Art of Wandering’ with Merlin Coverley (UK) At Housmans - Radical Book Sellers since 1945. 6.30pm, Saturday 15th September
Merlin Coverley will discuss the relationship between writing and walking, as explored in his latest book on the subject. Merlin Coverley’s new book ‘The Art of Wandering’ is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the peripatetic philosophers of Ancient Greece to the streets of twenty-first century London, Paris and New York, this figure has evolved through the centuries, the philosopher and the Romantic giving way to the experimentalist and radical. From pilgrim to pedestrian, flâneur to stalker, the names may change but the activity of walking remains constant, creating a literary tradition encompassing philosophy and poetry, the novel and the manifesto; a tradition which this book explores in detail. Today, as the figure of the wanderer returns to the forefront of the public imagination, writers and walkers from around the world are re-engaging with the ideas which animated earlier generations. For the walker is once again on the march, mapping new territory and recording new visions of the landscape. more details http://www.housmans.com/events.php _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
