Reading and Signing: Edward Cahill at Beacon Hill Books & Cafe!
When:
Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 6:00p -
7:00p
Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 6:00p -
7:00p
Where:
Beacon Hill Books & Cafe
71 Charles St
Boston, MA 02114
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Date Idea, LGBTQ+, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://bhbooks.gatherlearning.com/events/edward-cahill
Join us for a reading and signing of Edward Cahill's DISORDERLY MEN. Edward will be in conversation with Erin Murphy, Associate Professor of English and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University.
About the Book:
WINNER, 2023 BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD, LGBTQ2 FICTION
ON LAMBDA LITERARY REVIEW'S SEPTEMBER MOST ANTICIPATED LIST
ONE OF QUEER FORTY'S BEST PRIDE READS FOR SUMMER 2023
Three gay men in pre-Stonewall New York City find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village bar.
Columbia literature professor Julian Prince lives a comparatively uncloseted life when he finds his first committed relationship tested to its limits. How could he explain to Gus, a fearless young artist, that he couldn’t stay with him that weekend because the woman who was still technically Julian’s fiancée would be visiting? But when Gus is struck unconscious by a police baton, Julian comes out of hiding to protect him, even if exposure means losing everything.
Roger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret. As the shouting begins and flashlights blaze in his face, the life he’s carefully curated over the years—a fancy new office overlooking lower Broadway, a house in Beechmont Woods, his wife and children—is about to come crashing down around him.
For Danny Duffy, an Irish kid from the Bronx with a sassy mouth and a diverse group of friends, the raid is a galvanizing, Spartacus moment. Danny doesn’t have too much left to lose; his family has just disowned him. But once his name appears in the newspaper, he’ll be fired from his job at Sloan’s Supermarket, where he’s risen to assistant manager of produce, and begin a journey that veers between political enlightenment and violent revenge.
The three men find themselves in a police wagon together, their hidden lives threatened to be revealed to the world. The stakes for each are different, but all of them confront a fundamental question: How much happiness is he allowed to have . . . and what share of it will he lay claim to?
About the Author:
Edward Cahill is the author of Disorderly Men (2023) and Liberty of the Imagination (2012). He is Professor of English at Fordham University, where he has taught since 205. He lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
About the Moderator:
Erin Murphy is Associate Professor English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. She is the author of Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (2011) and co-editor of Milton Now: Alternative Approaches and Contexts (2014).
