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What happens when you return to your hometown after achieving fame and fortune? Greg Kearney and Timothy Taylor might know! In An Evening with Birdy O’Day, Kearney’s main character, Roland, reflects on his relationship with his childhood friend with pop superstar Birdy O’Day, before Birdy arrives in their hometown for his first concert in decades. In Taylor’s The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf, Teo Wolf is a chef who quickly climbed the ranks and is returning to his hometown of Vancouver to open his own restaurants, but is faced with a PR nightmare that threatens to ruin everything he’s worked for. Join these two authors as they discuss what you leave behind for fame, and what and who you return home to.

Moderator: Berardo Manari

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Greg Kearney

Greg Kearney (he/him) is the author of the short story collections Mommy Daddy Baby (McGilligan Books, 2004) and Pretty (Exile Editions, 2011), which won the ReLit Award for Short Fiction, and the novel The Desperates (Cormorant Books, 2013), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. His plays have been mounted at Theatre Passe Muraille and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

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Photo credit: Kyle Brasseur.

Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor is a bestselling, award-winning novelist and journalist. Taylor has been a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Writers Trust Fiction Prize, and won or been shortlisted for over 20 magazine awards.

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