Join us for a special evening with Actor, Director, and Writer Edward Burns—including a preview screening of his new film: Millers in Marriage.
Known for his prolific acting career in films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Holiday (2006), 27 Dresses (2008), Burns is also an accomplished author. Following the film, Burns will join us in conversation to discuss Millers in Marriage as well as his debut novel: A Kid from Marlboro Road.
Millers in Marriage:
Eve Miller (Gretchen Mol), a former indie rock singer, struggles with her toxic marriage while growing attracted to a music journalist. Her sister Maggie (Julianna Margulies), a bestselling author, faces marital discord as her career overshadows her husband’s. Featuring Morena Baccarin, Minnie Driver, Patrick Wilson, and Edward Burns. Written and directed by Edward Burns.
A Kid From Marlboro Road:
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.
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.
Copies of A Kid From Marlboro Road will be available for purchase courtesy of The Village Bookstore.
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