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Writing Hard Stories: Memoirists in Conversation

June 12, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 338 Newbury Street
Boston, MA United States

Trident Booksellers and Cafe welcomes MELANIE BROOKS, author of Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma, for a conversation with acclaimed memoirists RICHARD HOFFMAN (Boy Erased), GARRARD CONLEY (Love and Fury), and Boston Literary District's own ALYSIA ABBOTT (Fairyland). In her attempt to write a memoir about her father’s death from a secret AIDS infection in 1985, […]

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