I am so looking forward to this event as I love Andrew’s writing and we each approach two very different artist couples and the issues of making a life and making art and queerness and outsiderness from different forms.
‘Two writers. Two extraordinary books. One electrifying conversation. Damian Barr and Andrew Durbin are both, in their very different ways, chroniclers of the outsider experience - artists, lovers, misfits and trailblazers who refused to fit the mould. In this unmissable headline event, chaired by Gill Lowe and supported by Suffolk Book League, Damian Barr (BBC R2 Book Club hit The Two Roberts) and Andrew Durbin (The Wonderful World That Almost Was) discuss their brilliant books and the real artists - Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, Peter Hujar and Paul Thek - whose lives and work inspired and feature in them. Join us as our guest authors discuss the artistic legacies and love stories that these two extraordinary books finally bring into the light. We would like to note that this event borrows its title from the exhibition that Damian curated at Charleston, Lewes, earlier this year.’