The Toronto launch of C.E. Gatchalian's memoir DOUBLE MELANCHOLY: THE MAKING OF A BROWN QUEER MAN (Arsenal Pulp Press).
Part memoir, part cultural commentary, and a hybrid of besotted aesthetic appreciation and unsparing critique, Double Melancholy is by turns a passionate love letter to art and an embattled examination of its oppressive complicity with the society that produces it, and the depths to which art both enriches and colonizes us.
"A work of such psychic intimacy, one almost has the sense that they're watching Gatchalian think in real time on the page. Diaristic, theoretical, lyrical, DOUBLE MELANCHOLY gives voice to a unique, multi-hyphenated identity." -Jordan Tannahill, author of Liminal
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
C.E. GATCHALIAN is an internationally produced playwright and a 3-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. In 2013 he was recipient of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding emerging LGBTQ writer.