Robbe-Grillet has been in the USA on a lecture tour; writer heard the first of his lectures at La Maison Francais of N.Y.
In his lecture, the writer insisted that if readers did not experience a "shiver" of pleasure in reading "Bleak House," "then let us give up the whole thing and concentrate on our comics, our videos, our books-of-the-week".
In "Artful" the person who composed the lectures, a writer, is recently dead.
During a break in the lectures the writer tracked Dr. Whipple to the office of Frank Forrester, the Planetarium's meteorologist, to interview him.
It reinvented the studio programme, inviting historians such as Alan Bullock and EP Thompson to give lectures, and writers such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan to interview fellow writers.
In extracts from their lectures, top writers Abi Morgan, Brian Helgeland, Julian Fellowes, Peter Straughan and Scott Frank offer advice for career hopefuls.
Last Sunday, amidst panels and lectures with writers including Martin Amis and Tom Stoppard, Fry announced the winner, a Canadian professor and medical physicist named Marc MacKenzie.
A series of illustrated lectures by writers starts today at noon with Gillian Zoe Segal, a photographer who will talk about New York characters, celebrities and eccentric figures little known outside their neighborhoods.
He gave it to the English department at the university in Albany, to found something called the Writers Institute, which every year arranged a programme of free lectures by writers.
As professor of poetry at Oxford (2010-15), Hill delivered 15 lectures on writers from Shakespeare to Larkin, occasionally making sharp remarks about the state of contemporary poetry and the current poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.
