From Rosie Lavan and Kevin Brazil, EGO Social Secretaries

Hello to all! We very much enjoyed Wednesday graduate drinks at Jesus College and hope you did too - next up for EGO drinks this week is Mansfield bar: we’ll be sending details and a reminder on the day over e-mail. In the meantime here’s the usual list of things you might like to see and do.

See you all soon,
Kevin & Rosie

This one you don’t even have to move for: work your way through the pick of the Guardian and Observer’s recent Books Season.

Stand-up at the Wheatsheaf’s Big Fat Sketch Night featuring Rory & Tim and other Oxford acts, jokes about literature promised. Tuesday 15 November.

Reading Room at Modern Art Oxford: drawing on literature, art criticism and philosophy to encourage debate and reflection on current exhibitions. This month - John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces chosen by exhibiting artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. Thursday 17 November, 6-8pm. Full details of how to book and what to read here.

And in London…

Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination – major exhibition at the British Library of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts owned and annotated by British monarchs. Full details here.

Adam Phillips – psychoanalyst, writer and editor of the Penguin Freud – will discuss his literary influences with Joan Bakewell in the Cosmo Davenport-Hines Memorial Meeting for the Royal Society of Literature, Monday 21 November, King’s College London, 7pm. Tickets for non-RSL members on the door – Full details here.

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