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Authors Bruce Begout and D.J. Waldie reading

10/06/10
07:30pm - 09:00pm
Lecture, Reading, Film, Conference

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Graduate Writing presents its most recent publication in the Otis Books series: Bruce Bégout’s Common Place. The American Motel. The book includes an afterward by D.J. Waldie. Common Place is the second work in a triology begun with Zeropolis, a broad archeological inquiry into the meanings of the quotidian urban world. In Bégout’s essay, the American motel poetically reveals new forms of urban life, in which mobility, wandering, and poverty play a dominant role.

French philosopher and author Bruce Bégout is currently maître de conférences at the University of Bordeaux. He has published many essays, including Zéropolis. L'expérience de Las Vegas, Lieu commun. Le motel américain, La Découverte du quotidien. Éléments pour une phénoménologie du monde de la vie and De la décence ordinaire, as well as a novel L'Éblouissement des bords de route. He served on the editorial board of the journal Inculte, and is currently the series editor of “Matière étrangère” for Éditions Vrin.

D. J. Waldie lives in Lakewood, California and for many years worked as a city planner. He is a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Times and a contributing writer at Los Angeles magazine. Winner of fellowships from the NEA and the California Arts Council, as well as a Whiting Writers’ Award, he is the author of the acclaimed essay collection Holy Land.

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