Join us in celebrating the publication of Ambivalence , a new work by celebrated essayist Brian Dillon. Ambivalence is at once a memoir of Dublin in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and early-adult mind, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life. Dillon will be joined in conversation by fellow essayist Mark O’Connell. All are welcome to attend.
Attendance is free but booking is essential.
ABOUT
BRIAN DILLON was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Affinities , Suppose a Sentence , Essayism , The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror: Essays , I Am Sitting in a Room , Sanctuary , Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room , which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian , New York Times , London Review of Books , the New Yorker , New York Review of Books , frieze and Artforum . He has curated exhibitions for Tate and Hayward galleries. He lives in London.
MARK O’CONNELL is the author of A Thread of Violence, Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books . His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine , Slate , and The Guardian . He lives in Dublin with his family.