A Calling for Charlie Barnes: Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris  and Bert Archer

A Calling for Charlie Barnes: Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris  and Bert Archer

6:30pm

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, the author of Then We Came to the End, now comes A Calling for Charlie Barnes, a tender portrait of a man whose need to be loved is his downfall, and a brutally funny account of how that love is finally earned. Tune in for a compassionately relatable look at how a little perspective can help grant the gift of a second act to the discontented.

Interviewer: Bert Archer

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From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, the author of Then We Came to the End, now comes A Calling for Charlie Barnes, a tender portrait of a man whose need to be loved is his downfall, and a brutally funny account of how that love is finally earned. Tune in for a compassionately relatable look at how a little perspective can help grant the gift of a second act to the discontented.

Interviewer: Bert Archer

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Joshua Ferris is the author of three previous novels, Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, and a collection of stories, The Dinner Party. He was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was named one of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" writers in 2010. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta and Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York.

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Bert Archer is a writer in Toronto, a once and future traveler who enjoys reading. Though he appreciates Tiktok, he only posts on Instagram @world.of.bert.

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Wednesday, October 27

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