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Author Garrard Conley explores queerness in Puritan New England
Manage episode 422231776 series 1162310
Author Garrard Conley published his first book in 2016, "Boy Erased". The bestselling memoir, relaying Conley's experience undergoing conversion therapy at 19, inspired a major motion picture two years later.
This hour, Conley discusses his newest book and his first foray into fiction. "All the World Beside" explores queerness in Puritan New England. Set in 1700s Massachusetts and inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," an affair unfolds between Arthur Lyman, a physician, and Nathaniel Whitfield, a reverend.
GUESTS:
Garrard Conley: Author, All the World Beside and Boy Erased
Cat Pastor contributed to this episode which originally aired April 4.
Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1938 episodes
Manage episode 422231776 series 1162310
Author Garrard Conley published his first book in 2016, "Boy Erased". The bestselling memoir, relaying Conley's experience undergoing conversion therapy at 19, inspired a major motion picture two years later.
This hour, Conley discusses his newest book and his first foray into fiction. "All the World Beside" explores queerness in Puritan New England. Set in 1700s Massachusetts and inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," an affair unfolds between Arthur Lyman, a physician, and Nathaniel Whitfield, a reverend.
GUESTS:
Garrard Conley: Author, All the World Beside and Boy Erased
Cat Pastor contributed to this episode which originally aired April 4.
Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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