March 14, 2012, 7:00 PM
Tosca Cafe
242 Columbus Ave.
Litquake continues its Epicenter series at North Beach’s famed Tosca Café with novelist, essayist, and New York Times Book Review columnist Geoff Dyer, in conversation with film critic David Thomson. This will be Dyer’s only Bay Area appearance for his newest book Zona.
Cult favorite Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels: Paris Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory, and most recently, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; the U.S. essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition; and five genre-defying titles: But Beautiful, The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It and The Ongoing Moment. His most recent book, Zona, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, is published in the U.S. in February 2012. He lives in London.
David Thomson is a film critic and historian, and a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, Movieline, The New Republic, and Salon. His most recent books are Have You Seen…?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films, and the fifth edition of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. He lives in San Francisco.
Co-presented by The Believer
About the Epicenter
The Epicenter embraces a theater of ideas between writers and readers with a literary conversation followed by audience Q&A, book sales and signing.
Admission is free, cocktails recommended. Capacity is limited, so come early.
See the full Epicenter schedule.
