The ‘Two Johnnies’ at Kings College London

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John Sutherland, co-author of Love, Sex, Death and Words, and John Crace will be at Kings College London on Tuesday 26 October in a discussion called On the Nature of Criticism.

The two authors were last heard together at a fabulously enjoyable event in Warwick so this London discussion will be one not to miss!

Here’s some more details below and there’s more here. It’s free but you need to complete a booking form

‘The Guardian’s master satirist and the Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of English indulge in a little light flyting, roasting and joshing at the expense of literary pretension and solemnity: a mix of provocative ideas, humour and readings. Has academia destroyed literary criticism? Is all criticism an act of violence? Is reading and digesting fiction akin to grievous bodily harm? As the Two Johnnies say, “ this talk may be taken down and used in evidence against them!”’