In Conversation with Oliver Radclyffe
Sunday, December 1st at 2 p.m.
Obodo Serendipity Books
Paradise Green
Sunday, December 1st at 2 PM, Michael Todd Cohen will be “in conversation” with local Fairfield author Oliver Radclyffe about his book Frighten the Horses at the new Obodo Serendipity Books on Main Street, Paradise Green. Frighten The Horses is an Oprah Daily Best Book of Fall. A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one’s life and embracing one’s truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxes.
It’s a ticketed event, to purchase a book or to reserve a seat email:
Oliver Radclyffe is part of the new wave of transgender writers unafraid to address the complex nuances of transition, examining the places where gender identity, sexual orientation, feminist allegiance, social class, and family history overlap. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Electric Literature, The Gay & Lesbian Review, PRINT Magazine and Them. His monograph, ADULT HUMAN MALE, was published by Unbound Edition in 2023. His memoir, Frighten the Horses is out now with Roxane Gay Books. He currently lives on the Connecticut coast, where he is raising his four children.
Michael Todd Cohen is an essayist and artist published in The Rumpus, Split/Lip, and The Connecticut Literary Anthology, among others; Asst. Nonfiction Editor at X-Ray Literary Magazine. Recently, Editor-in-Chief Curiouser.
