Het is tijd voor de derde editie van Athenaeum Goes British. We zijn verheugd te kunnen aankondigen dat onze derde gast de Britse schrijver, modecriticus en curator Charlie Porter zal zijn!

Kom naar Athenaeum Boekhandel Spui op donderdag 27 maart 17.00 uur voor een avond met Charlie Porter. Samen met boekverkoper Reny van der Kamp gaat hij in gesprek over zijn nieuwe roman Nova Scotia House. 

Na twee modeboeken schreef Charlie Porter nu een roman, we zijn benieuwd hoe de drie titels zich tot elkaar verhouden. Het belooft een verdiepende, interessante en Britse avond te worden!

Over Charlie Porter

Charlie Porter is a writer, fashion critic and curator. He has written for the Financial Times, the Guardian, The New York Times, GQ, Luncheon, i-D and Fantastic Man, and has been described as one of the most influential fashion journalists of his time. Porter co-runs the London queer rave Chapter 10, and is a trustee of the Friends of Arnold Circus, where he is also a volunteer gardener. He lives in London.

Over Nova Scotia House

He said he would understand if it was too much for me, that I could leave him, that I was young, I should be living, I said to him, I am living.

Johnny Grant faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers, he looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field. When they met, nearly thirty years ago, Johnny was 19, Jerry was 45. They fell in love and made a life on their own terms in Jerry’s flat: 1, Nova Scotia House. Johnny is still there today – but Jerry is gone, and so is the world they knew.

As Johnny’s mind travels between then and now, he begins to remember stories of Jerry’s youth: of experiments in living; of radical philosophies; of the many possibilities of love, sex and friendship before the AIDS crisis devastated the queer community. Slowly, he realizes what he must do next—and attempts to restore ways of being that could be lost forever.

Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era. It is both a love story and a lament; bearing witness to the enduring pain of the AIDS pandemic and honouring the joys and creativity of queer life. Intimate, visionary, and profoundly original, it marks the debut of a vibrant new voice in contemporary fiction, and a writer with a liberating new story to tell.