Niven Govinden & Gareth Evans: Diary of a Film
<p>Niven Govinden’s sixth novel <a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/diary-of-a-film-niven-govinden" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Diary of a Film</em></a> (Dialogue) follows an unnamed director through the streets of an Italian town as he muses on cinema, queer love and the creative process; on its hardback publication, during first lockdown, the <em>Financial Times </em>described it as ‘a wise and skilfully controlled novel, which can be read in an afternoon, but which radiates in the mind for much longer.’ To celebrate the novel’s release in paperback, Govinden talks to Gareth Evans, the Whitechapel Art Gallery’s Moving Image curator.</p><p>Find our upcoming events, online and in-person, here: <a href="https://lrb.me/upcomingevents" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.me/upcomingevents</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Show Notes
Niven Govinden’s sixth novel Diary of a Film (Dialogue) follows an unnamed director through the streets of an Italian town as he muses on cinema, queer love and the creative process; on its hardback publication, during first lockdown, the Financial Times described it as ‘a wise and skilfully controlled novel, which can be read in an afternoon, but which radiates in the mind for much longer.’ To celebrate the novel’s release in paperback, Govinden talks to Gareth Evans, the Whitechapel Art Gallery’s Moving Image curator.
Find our upcoming events, online and in-person, here: lrb.me/upcomingevents
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.