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Michael Lowenthal & Scott Heim
Reading/discussion
Starts at
5:30 pm
Francie & Finch Bookshop
Target Audiences:
130 S. 13th St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Directions: 130 S 13th St, Lincoln, NE 68508
Contact:
Timothy Schaffert
Michael Lowenthal will discuss his new book, PLACE ENVY: ESSAYS IN SEARCH OF ORIENTATION, and Scott Heim will discuss the reissue of his classic novel of gay literature, MYSTERIOUS SKIN.
Growing up in places where his family had no past, and met mostly by silence from his Holocaust-refugee grandparents, Michael Lowenthal longed to be from somewhere. Then he realized he was gay and felt displaced from his own displaced family. PLACE ENVY-his first book of essays after five acclaimed books of fiction-chronicles his quest for orientation in the world: as an agnostic Jew, as a queer traveler and lover, and as a writer who can tell or twist the truth.
Scott Heim’s MYSTERIOUS SKIN is as timely and compelling as when it was first published more than three decades ago; this propulsive novel about abuse and its after-effects in the lives of two teenage boys is an honest and searing exploration of memory, survival, friendship, and the power of truth. The novel was adapted into film by Gregg Araki and released in 2004.
Growing up in places where his family had no past, and met mostly by silence from his Holocaust-refugee grandparents, Michael Lowenthal longed to be from somewhere. Then he realized he was gay and felt displaced from his own displaced family. PLACE ENVY-his first book of essays after five acclaimed books of fiction-chronicles his quest for orientation in the world: as an agnostic Jew, as a queer traveler and lover, and as a writer who can tell or twist the truth.
Scott Heim’s MYSTERIOUS SKIN is as timely and compelling as when it was first published more than three decades ago; this propulsive novel about abuse and its after-effects in the lives of two teenage boys is an honest and searing exploration of memory, survival, friendship, and the power of truth. The novel was adapted into film by Gregg Araki and released in 2004.
