Literature

Michael Patrick MacDonald

25th Anniversary of All Souls

Past Event

Details

$15–41 (inclusive of fees)

120 minutes

Date(s)

Tue, Oct 1, 2024

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Contact

boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
888-616-0274

Location

The Devlin Café
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue
Hell's Kitchen, NYC

Overview

A breakaway bestseller when first published in 1999, the American Book Award-winning memoir All Souls takes us deep into artist, educator, and activist Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular Boston Irish neighborhood that held the highest concentration of white poverty in America. We celebrate the 25th anniversary of this landmark story with a conversation, reading, and after-party with the author and special guest Colum McCann.

Copies of All Souls will be available to purchase at the reading.

With support from Beacon Press.

“The written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details”—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“One for the ages … All Souls  is a book that you will carry everywhere, most especially in that eternal rag and bone shop of the heart”—COLUM MCCANN

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Featuring

Michael Patrick MacDonald
Colum McCann

Featured Media

Review: "The book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details”

New York Times
Review: "An incendiary, moving book that startles on nearly every page"

Kirkus Reviews

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