London Review of Books’ Close Readings Live: James Wood in conversation with Clair Wills
- 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Tuesday October 27, 2026
- Studio | Ace Hotel Brooklyn
Join us for a special live recording of the London Review of Book’s podcast, Close Readings. Host James Wood, professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard and a staff writer at the New Yorker, will be in conversation with Clair Wills, winner of the An Post Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award and teacher at Cambridge, about Hilary Mantel’s memoir, Giving up the Ghost.
Ticket price includes a complimentary drink and copy of the latest issue of the London Review of Books.
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