MINIMALISM VS MAXIMALISM
Location: Arts Building, Room 2.03
Date: 18:00 6 Mar 2008
Speaker: Matt Thorne, China Mieville & Toby Litt.
Organiser: School of Literature & Creative Writing
Ticket Price: Admission Free
What is the best way to write fiction? Is less always more? What are the things that Maximalism can do that Minimalism can’t? And vice versa. Is Raymond Carver really God? Or does H.P. Lovecraft rule? An event to thrash out these issues once and for all. Come and have your say.
(L-R: Matt Thorne, Toby Litt &
Representing Minimalism: Matt Thorne
author of Tourist, Eight Minutes Idle (2000 Encore Award), Dreaming of Strangers, Pictures of You, Child Star and Cherry (Booker Prize Longlisted). He is also the author of three children's books, The 39 Castles Series (2004-5), and has co-edited two anthologies
Representing Maximalism:
author of King Rat, Perdido Street Station (2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award), The Scar (British Fantasy Award), Iron Council (2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award), Un Lun Dun and Looking for Jake.
Moderating: Toby Litt
author of Adventures in Capitalism, Beatniks, Corpsing, deadkidsongs, Exhibitionism, Finding Myself, Ghost Story, Hospital and I play the drums in a band called okay.
Toby Litt is the current UEA Creative Writing Fellow, and was named as a Granta Best of British Novelist in 2003.
