Due to popular demand, this event has been moved to the Mt Eden Village Centre, which is a block down from Time Out at 449 Mt Eden Rd.
We triumphantly return to events with C. K. Stead in conversation with Steve Braunias upstairs at Time Out Books, Mt Eden, Auckland. Please join us as C. K. Stead discusses his fascinating and oft-times controversial life as a New Zealand literary great, critic and activist. Drinks and nibbles provided and C. K. Stead will sign copies of his new book You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir 1956–1986.
The second volume of C. K. Stead’s riveting memoir, taking us from graduate school to Smith’s Dream and the Springbok Tour.
New Zealand’s most extraordinary literary everyman – poet, novelist, critic, activist – C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study abroad, writing and a university career, until he left the University of Auckland to write full time aged fifty-three.
It is a tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and 70s. And, at its heart, it is an account of a remarkable life among books – of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors.
From Booloominbah to Menton, The New Poetic to All Visitors Ashore, from Vietnam to the Springbok Tour, C. K. Stead’s You Have a Lot to Lose takes readers on a remarkable voyage through New Zealand’s intellectual and cultural history.
RSVP to books@timeout.co.nz
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
C. K. Stead is a distinguished, award-winning novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He was the New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2015–2017, has won the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction and is a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour possible in New Zealand.
