Wanstead Book Festival presents: Joanna Pocock in conversation with John Rogers

PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF VENUE – this event will now be upstairs at the Bull, 129 High St. * 

Twenty years ago, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US. Nearly 20 years later, she repeated the journey, revisiting the same cities, edgelands, highways and motels.

In Greyhound she explores the overlapping area of place and memory as she navigates two different landscapes – an earlier, less atomized society and a current one mired in inequality and teetering on the brink of environmental calamity. Greyhound combines memoir, reportage and literary criticism, and is a moving and immersive exploration of modern day America with all its beauty, horror and complexity.

Joanna will be in conversation with Wanstead Fringe favourite John Rogers whose calling as psychogeographer has led him to explore the link between place, memory and people.

* The upstairs room at the Bull is accessible only by stairs. If this is going to cause you problems, please accept our apologies and contact us for a refund.