A Reading by Damian Barr, Author of Maggie & Me
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On Tuesday, June 11, Toronto Public Library is pleased to welcome Damian Barr to the Lillian H. Smith Branch where he will be reading and discussion is new memoir, Maggie & Me.The time is 7 pm, and you can click here for more information. |
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Maggie & Me is Barr's own touching and witty story of growing up in an impoverished town in Scotland during the Thatcher years, of growing up gay in a straight world and somehow surviving what life hands out, which is mostly pretty tough.
He is a journalist, playwright, Host of Soho House Literary Salon, which is really a book club based at the private London members' club Shoreditch House. As the Guardian's Katie Antoniou wrote in 2009, "it is a testament to Damian's standing in the literary world that this is the only event at Shoreditch House that's open to non-members, where you can mix with |
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Barr has also carved out a great gig as "reader-in-residence" and spends a month of every year, living in hotels, reading to their guests. Where do I sign up?
In the meantime, as you ponder this, you can hear Damian Barr speaking–and you don't have to sign up. Just appear–it will be interesting and enjoyable.
Two days later, the series wraps up on June 13, 7 pm, at Parliament Street with author and journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee. His book Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
recounts the story of his family's remarkable travels back and forth
between Yemen and Egypt during the 1960s, and his own struggle to find a
way to live as a gay man.
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