The Torturer's Wife: A Reading & Booksigning with Thomas Glave

Event Details

Time: April 7, 2009 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Location: Food For Thought Books
Street: 106 N. Pleasant Street
City/Town: Amherst, MA
Website or Map: http://www.foodforthoughtbook…
Phone: 413.253.5432
Event Type: reading, &, booksigning
Organized By: Food For Thought Books
Latest Activity: Apr 3, 2009

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Event Description

Thomas Glave is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality. In The Torturer's Wife, he expands and deepens his lyrical experimentation in stories that focus—explicitly and allegorically—on the horrors of dictatorships, war, anti-gay violence, the weight of traumatized memory, secret fetishes, erotic longing, desire and intimacy.

Glave's work has earned many honors, including the Lambda Literary Award in 2005 and an O. Henry Prize (he is the second gay African American writer, after James Baldwin, to win this award). He is currently the Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT.