Belmont Library Author Jonathan Corcoran: No Son of Mine

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 57:00—8:30 PMClassroom A, Beech Street Center266 Beech St, Belmont, MA, 02478\

free

When Jonathan Corcoran came out to his mother at age 20, she disowned him and, suddenly, Corcoran’s past was “wiped clean” of all the “relationships, geographies, histories” he had ever known. Corcoran creates a memorable narrative tapestry that delves into the dark complexities of love while exploring a gay man’s hard-won path to self-acceptance.

Jonathan Corcoran is the author of the memoir, No Son of Mine (April 2024, University Press of Kentucky), and the story collection, The Rope Swing (2016, WVU Press), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and long-listed for The Story Prize. His essays and stories have been published and anthologized widely, including in Belt Magazine, Salvation South, Still: The Journal, Best Gay Stories, and the Oxford University Press textbook, How Writing Works. He received a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Jonathan teaches writing at New York University and in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more at jonathancorcoranwrites.com.

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