Taylor Books offers many free events like author talks, book launches, art gallery receptions, beginner friendly craft workshops like Drink and Draw, and live music on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Events Calendar
Boff Whalley Book & Music Event
Join us for a book and music event with Boff Whaley–musician, author, and a founding member of the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba and Commoners Choir–in celebration of his new book, But: Life Isn’t Like That, Is It?, released this month by PM Press. These are stories about real lives and real people–stuttering, wayward, disjointed, funny, ridiculous, and unplanned. To coincide with the release of But, Boff is touring both the UK and USA, visiting bookstores and venues to talk about, and sing, the stories that make up the book. Part reading, part gig, and part conversation, Boff will play songs from a lifetime of writing and making music, songs which chime with the book and draw from a personal history of creative activism.
Reading with Jonathan Corcoran
We are excited to welcome Jonathan Corcoran for a reading and book signing. His memoir, No Son of Mine, was published last year by the University Press of Kentucky.
Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of poverty. His mother, a traditional, evangelical, and insular woman who had survived abuse and abandonment, was often his only ally. Together they navigated a strained homelife dominated by his distant, gambling-addicted father and shared a seemingly unbreakable bond.
When Corcoran left home to attend Brown University, a chasm between his upbringing and his reality began to open. As his horizons and experiences expanded, he formed new bonds beyond bloodlines, and met the upper-middle-class Jewish man who would become his husband. But this authentic life would not be easy, and Corcoran was forever changed when his mother disowned him after discovering his truth. In the ensuing fifteen years, the two would come together only to violently spring apart. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged in 2020, the cycle finally ended when he received the news that his mother had died.
In No Son of Mine, Corcoran traces his messy estrangement from his mother through lost geographies: the trees, mountains, and streams that were once his birthright, as well as the lost relationships with friends and family and the sense of home that were stripped away when she said he was no longer her son. A biography nestled inside a memoir, No Son of Mine is Corcoran's story of alienation and his attempts to understand his mother's choice to cut him out of her life. Through grief, anger, questioning, and growth, Corcoran explores the entwined yet separate histories and identities of his mother and himself.
Jonathan Corcoran is the author of The Rope Swing: Stories, which was long-listed for the Story Prize and a Lambda Literary Awards finalist. His essays and stories have been anthologized in Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia and Best Gay Stories. Corcoran teaches writing at New York University and resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Live Music with Tim and Maggie
Join us for live music on March 1st with Tim and Maggie
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