TOUR DATES:
September 9th, 7:00pm - Spring Lake, NJ (Thunder Road Books)
Ed Burns with Basil Iwanyk at The Mountz School of Spring Lake
411 Tuttle Ave, Spring Lake, NJ 07762
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September 10-12th - Toronto International Film Festival
September 13th, 7:00pm - Wellesley, MA (Wellesley Books)
Ed Burns at Wellesley Books
82 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
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September 16th, 7:00pm - Danville, CA (Rakestraw Books)
Ed Burns at Rakestraw Books
3 Railroad Ave, Danville, CA 94526
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September 17th, 7:00pm - Corte Madera, CA (Book Passage Bookstore)
Ed Burns at Book Passage Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA 94925
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September 18th, 6:00pm - Summerland, CA (Godmother's Bookstore)
Ed Burns at Godmother's Bookstore
2280 Lillie Ave, Summerland, CA 93067
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September 19th, 6:00pm - Santa Monica, CA (Zibby's Books)
Ed Burns with Zibby Owens at Zibby Books
1113 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90403
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September 21st - Pasadena, CA (Vroman's)
Ed Burns at Vroman's Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd Pasadena, CA 91101
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September 23rd, 7:30pm - San Diego, CA (Warwick's)
Ed Burns at Warwick's
7812 Girard Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
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September 24th - Portland, OR (Powell's Books)
Ed Burns at Powell’s Cedar Hill Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005
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September 25th, 7:30pm - Seattle, WA (Town Hall Seattle with Elliott Bay Bookstore)
Ed Burns at The Wyncote Northwest Forum, presented by Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.), Seattle, WA 98101
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September 26th, 8:00pm - Berwyn, IL (Fitzgerald's Bar with The Book Cellar)
The Interview Show: Ed Burns with Elizabeth Moen and Patrick Bertoletti at Fitzgerald's Bar, presented by Chicago Humanities, Fitzgerald's Bar, and The Book Cellar
6615 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, IL 60402
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September 30th, 5:30 pm talk, 7 pm screening - Milwaukee, WI (The Downer Theater with Boswell Books)
Ed Burns at Downer Theatre (book talk and screening)
2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211
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October 1st - Cleveland, OH (Cuyahoga Public Library with Mac's Backs Bookstore)
Ed Burns at Cuyahoga County Public Library
2121 Snow Road, Parma, OH, 44134
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October 2nd, 6:00pm - Atlanta, GA (SCAD-Atlanta)
Ed Burns at SCADshow, Main Stage
1470 Spring St. NW, Atlanta, GA
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October 3rd - Fairway, KS, (Unity Temple with Irish Center and Rainy Day Books)
Ed Burns at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary
707 W 47th Street Kansas City, MO 64112
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October 4th - Dallas, TX (Dallas Contemporary with Deep Vellum Books)
Ed Burns at Dallas Contemporary
161 Glass St, Dallas, TX 75207
October 5th - Austin, TX (Book People)
Ed Burns at Central Presbyterian Church
603 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78703
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October 8th - Point Pleasant Beach, NJ (Little Point Bookshop)
Ed Burns at The Little Point Bookshop
618 Arnold Ave, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742
October 10th - New Canaan, CT (New Canaan Library with Elm Street Books)
Ed Burns at New Canaan Library
151 Main Street, New Canaan, CT 06840
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October 16th - Raleigh, NC (Quail Ridge Booksellers)
Ed Burns at Quail Ridge Books North Hills
4209-100 Lassiter Mill Rd, Raleigh, NC 27609
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December 9th - Pleasantville, NY (Jacob Burns Film Center, with Village Bookstore)
Ed Burns at Jacob Burns Film Center
10 Washington Ave, Pleasantville, NY 10570
ABOUT THE BOOK:
An Irish-American family comes to life through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy in this debut novel by actor-filmmaker Ed Burns. Immigrants and storytellers, lilting voices and Long Island moxie are all part of this colorful Irish-Catholic community in 1970s New York.
Our twelve-year-old narrator, an aspiring writer, is at a wake. He takes in the death of his beloved grandfather, Pop, a larger-than-life figure. The overflowing crowd — a sign of a life well lived — comprises sandhogs in their muddy work boots, Irish grandmothers in black dresses, cops in uniform, members of the family deep in mourning. He watches it all, not yet realizing how this Irish American world defines who he is and who he will become. His older brother Tommy has no patience for rules and domesticities, his father is emotionally elsewhere. This boy knows he’s the best thing his mother's got, though her sadness envelops them both.
In A Kid from Marlboro Road, past and present intermingle as family stories are told and retold. The narrative careens between the prior generation’s colorful sojourns in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen and the softer world of Gibson, the town on Long Island where they live now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont racetrack, and in Montauk.Edward Burns’s buoyant first novel is a bildungsroman. Out of one boy’s story a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American tale, raucous and joyous.
With eight pages of photographs of some of the people and historical locations that inspired characters and scenes in the novel.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born in Woodside, Queens and raised on Long Island, Edward Burns has made fourteen feature films as writer-director-actor and starred in many films, including Saving Private Ryan. Burns’ first film, The Brothers McMullen, premiered in competition at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury prize. The film also won “Best First Feature” at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. In 2015, he published Independent Ed, an inside look at his two decades as a pioneer in independent filmmaking. A Kid from Marlboro Road is his first novel, based on his childhood memories and the Irish American communities of the Bronx and Long Island.