Ponyboy: In Conversation with Eliot Duncan

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This event will take place in person at Roosevelt Island Library. [[{"fid":"394661","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan"},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"default","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan"}},"attributes":{"alt":"Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan","title":"Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan","height":460,"width":672,"class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]] The National Book Award nominee Eliot Duncan discusses his novel Ponyboy, an evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. Join us for a reading, insights into his writing process, and a Q&A. Eliot Duncan is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. His debut novel, PONYBOY (Norton, ’23), was the first book with a trans protagonist to be nominated for The National Book Award. He teaches a workshop called Exquisite Love: Madness as Divinity through Literature. He lives in New York City. www.eliot-duncan.com