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@Macaulay Author Series Featuring Allen Kurzweil With Susan Morrison

Warning! This @Macaulay Author Series event may stir up some not-so-fond memories from middle school. If you’ve ever been bullied—or been a bully—join us for an evening with best-selling author Allen Kurzweil. He’ll read from his latest work, speak about the writing process, sign books (for sale at the event) and answer questions.

This event is free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil’s search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some forty years, takes Kurzweil all over the world, from a Swiss boarding school (where he endures horrifying cruelty) to the slums of Manila, from the Park Avenue boardroom of the world’s largest law firm to a federal prison camp in Southern California. While hunting down his tormentor, Kurzweil encounters an improbable cast of characters that includes an elocution teacher with ill-fitting dentures, a gang of faux royal swindlers, a crime investigator “with paper in his blood,” and a monocled grand master of the Knights of Malta. Yet for all its global exoticism and comic exuberance, Kurzweil’s riveting account is, at its core, a heartfelt and suspenseful narrative about the “parallel lives” of a victim and his abuser.

A scrupulously researched work of non-fiction that renders a childhood menace into an unlikely muse,Whipping Boy is much more than a tale of karmic retribution; it is a poignant meditation on loss, memory, and mourning, a surreal odyssey born out of suffering, nourished by rancor, tempered by wit, and resolved, unexpectedly, in a breathtaking act of personal courage.

Kurzweil is joined by Susan Morrison, the articles editor of The New Yorker. Morrison was editor in chief of The New York Observer and an original editor of Spy.

ABOUT ALLEN KURZWEIL: Allen Kurzweil is a novelist, journalist, teacher, and inventor. Educated at Yale and the University of Rome, he has written for numerous publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in Rhode Island, where he serves on the board of the Providence Athenaeum.

ABOUT THE @MACAULAY AUTHOR SERIES: The @Macaulay Author Series hosts acclaimed authors and interviewers together in conversation about interesting new books.











When: Mon., Feb. 9, 2015 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Macaulay Honors College
35 W. 67th St.
212-729-2900
Price: Free
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Warning! This @Macaulay Author Series event may stir up some not-so-fond memories from middle school. If you’ve ever been bullied—or been a bully—join us for an evening with best-selling author Allen Kurzweil. He’ll read from his latest work, speak about the writing process, sign books (for sale at the event) and answer questions.

This event is free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil’s search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some forty years, takes Kurzweil all over the world, from a Swiss boarding school (where he endures horrifying cruelty) to the slums of Manila, from the Park Avenue boardroom of the world’s largest law firm to a federal prison camp in Southern California. While hunting down his tormentor, Kurzweil encounters an improbable cast of characters that includes an elocution teacher with ill-fitting dentures, a gang of faux royal swindlers, a crime investigator “with paper in his blood,” and a monocled grand master of the Knights of Malta. Yet for all its global exoticism and comic exuberance, Kurzweil’s riveting account is, at its core, a heartfelt and suspenseful narrative about the “parallel lives” of a victim and his abuser.

A scrupulously researched work of non-fiction that renders a childhood menace into an unlikely muse,Whipping Boy is much more than a tale of karmic retribution; it is a poignant meditation on loss, memory, and mourning, a surreal odyssey born out of suffering, nourished by rancor, tempered by wit, and resolved, unexpectedly, in a breathtaking act of personal courage.

Kurzweil is joined by Susan Morrison, the articles editor of The New Yorker. Morrison was editor in chief of The New York Observer and an original editor of Spy.

ABOUT ALLEN KURZWEIL: Allen Kurzweil is a novelist, journalist, teacher, and inventor. Educated at Yale and the University of Rome, he has written for numerous publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in Rhode Island, where he serves on the board of the Providence Athenaeum.

ABOUT THE @MACAULAY AUTHOR SERIES: The @Macaulay Author Series hosts acclaimed authors and interviewers together in conversation about interesting new books.

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