Scott Pack, Lars Iyer, Elaine Feinstein. Gabriel Gbadamosi chairs.

Reports of the death of the author have been greatly exaggerated. They’re back, and they’re in the news, with fans queuing round the block at signings. Do punditry and promotion make writing a viable profession or distract from the business of writing? Should writers be read but not seen?

Digital novelist and Spurious blogger Lars Iyer, former Head Buyer for Waterstones and HarperCollins publicist Scott Pack, and prize-winning poet Elaine Feinstein greet their public.

Leo Robson, Lars Iyer, Joanna Kavenna. Gabriel Gbadamosi chairs.

What fresh possibilites await the future of the contemporary novel? The 20th century saw Joyce, Beckett and Woolf rewrite the rule book for fiction. But after a glance at the Booker Prize list, you could be forgiven for thinking the revolution had never happened. Was experimental fiction always a flash in the pan, or are we on the cusp of a new period of innovation and discovery?

Philosopher, novelist and blogger Lars Iyer, Orange prize-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna, and New Statesman and FT critic Leo Robson imagine the future of fiction.

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