Award-winning gay novelist Wayne Hoffman (Hard, An Older Man, Sweet Like Sugar) makes his nonfiction debut with The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder.

Wayne’s great-grandmother, a Russian Jewish immigrant, was brutally murdered in 1913 in Winnipeg’s so-called Hebrew Colony. The crime made headlines across Canada, in English and Yiddish newspapers, and her funeral was the largest Winnipeg had ever seen. But the killer was never found. A century later, Wayne—a veteran journalist—set out to solve this mystery when his mother (named in her slain grandmother’s memory) was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The result is a family memoir about a gay man caring for his mother as her mental health deteriorates, interspersed with a historical investigation into the events of a century ago, as he races to find the answers before his mother loses the ability to understand her own family history.

Reading followed by a Q&A with veteran Billboard editor and Sirius XM radio host Larry Flick, joining us virtually from Wales.

Join Wayne Hoffman in-person at the Bureau OR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrAvfZMDF_ilmUH0CBn5iA

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Purchase Wayne Hoffman’s The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder (Heliotrope Books, 2022, paperback, $18) from the Bureau’s online store.

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Wayne Hoffman is the author of three novels—Hard, An Older Man, and Sweet Like Sugar—and his essays have appeared in such anthologies as Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers and Best Gay Stories 2010. His cultural reporting has appeared in the Washington Post, Village Voice, Billboard, Out, The Advocate, Poz, and elsewhere; he is currently executive editor of the Jewish online magazine Tablet.

Larry Flick is a 35-plus year veteran of music and media. He first made his mark at Billboard magazine as a senior editor for 14 years. He then took to the airwaves of SiriusXM as a host and producer for 18 years. He is currently a music curator for VERO Music, and a writer for publications that include the Telegraph UK and Rival magazine.