CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS MALLON & MARTIN SHERMAN, LED BY MAUREEN CORRIGAN

Saturday, March 28
4 – 5:15 PM—CONVERSATION
CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS MALLON & MARTIN SHERMAN
LED BY MAUREEN CORRIGAN
When fact is stranger than fiction, how do you tell a story that’s compelling, empathetic, and true? NPR’s Maureen Corrigan leads a discussion about interweaving humanity with history. Thomas Mallon is the author of The Very Heart of It, a New Yorker Best Book of the Year that chronicles his journal entries around New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, a gay coming of age story that takes readers through the AIDs crisis and beyond. He is also the author of nonfiction works about diaries, plagiarism, and letters, as well as a substantial body of work in historical fiction, from the Reagan years to Hurricane Katrina. Martin Sherman is the author of On the Boardwalk, a memoir that takes the reader on a darkly humorous journey of the author’s life growing up in a Jewish immigrant family and ending with his success on Broadway as the writer of the play Bent. Sherman is also known for his stage adaptations of Tennessee Williams’ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India.
Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom, $10 or Lit Pass or VIP Pass.