A party and performance/reading to mark the publication of the novel PORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION (Lethe Press) by Patrick E. Horrigan.

Patrick E. Horrigan was born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania.  He earned a BA from The Catholic University of America and a PhD from Columbia University.  He is the author of the novel Portraits at an Exhibition (forthcoming May 2015 from Lethe Press), the memoir Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies, the play Messages for Gary: A Drama in Voicemail, and (with Eduardo Leanez) the solo show You Are Confused!  With Mr. Leanez, he hosts Actors with Accents, a recurring variety show at Teatro Circulo in the East Village.  He has also written catalogue essays for Ernesto Pujol’s Loss of Faith and Thion’s Limi-TATE: Drawings of Life and Dreams.  In the late 1980s, he taught as a volunteer at the Harvey Milk High School for Gay and Lesbian Youth.  In 1993 he joined the English Department at LIU Brooklyn, where he teaches courses on American literature, pop culture, LGBT studies, modernism and Virginia Woolf.