Join two acclaimed memoirists for readings from their new works addressing the intensities, mysteries, and precarities of boyhood in tumultuous times. John C. Hampsey's Kaufman's Hill, set in 1960s Pittsburgh, juxtaposes the dawning of adulthood alongside the twilight of an era, and has been praised by Tim O'Brien as "among the most touching, sensitive, and spellbinding memoirs I've encountered in many years." Richard Hoffman's Love & Fury is a profound and polemical memoir about the ways in which class and education irrevocably impact family relationships, descibed by Andre Dubus III as  "masterful and necessary... a rare combination of honest self-scrutiny, fairness, intellectual rigor, and emotional bravery." Cary Barbor, host of the literary podcast Books & Authors, will facilitate the discussion.

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