'I loved this book. I loved its honesty, its impatience, its tenderness, its testiness, its humour. I love all the different ways of noticing it lays bare. Indeed Elkin captures all the thoughts, impressions, digressions, and speculations that go on in our minds while we surrender to being just another inert body on a bus. Thrilling and absorbing, these are notes to treasure and return to.' — Claire-Louise Bennett
No.91/92: notes on a Parisian commuteby Lauren Elkin isbn 978-1-8380141-8-6 | 140 pages, paperback | £8.99
Join us online or in person to celebrate Lauren Elkin's newly published bus diary in iPhone notes.
7 September at 6.30pm
Lauren Elkin & Lucie Paye
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT
Live and live streamed on YouTube
Tickets here
9 September at 7pm
Lauren Elkin & Deborah Levy
London Review Bookshop
Online event
Tickets here
'I’m not that interested in writing traditional memoir, and it made me think all my note-taking might be tending towards something that could itself be the work, without being a conventional essay about what happened and how it felt, with scientific input and statistics and so on.'
Read Lauren Elkin's interview for the Observer here.
‘Paris in intense, dramatic closeup — an insider's entrancing view.' – Michèle Roberts
'Elkin, along with Olivia Laing and Rebecca Solnit is perhaps one of the most interesting voices claiming the streets for women at the moment.' — Will Self
‘A portal into the unconscious life of the city.'
– Laura Grace Ford
'Glitters with life.’— Jenn Ashworth
‘A compelling portrait of the many cities that hide within the singular name of Paris and the many selves we contain.’
— Darran Anderson
'A thrilling tribute to the importance of everyday living, and a window into life’s big and small tragedies, from terrorism to the loss of a wanted pregnancy.' – Summer Brennan,
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