Andy Barrow "Peter in Progress" in Conv. with Tim McCarthy

East End Books Ptown presents: Andy Barrow "Peter in Progress" in Conv. with Tim McCarthy June 26th - 6pm

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Peter In Progress: When COVID hits, Peter Hughes finds himself unemployed, out of shape, and living in his mother’s basement. Not where he thought he’d be in his mid-thirties.

Then he discovers Ryan’s Fabulous Fitness, a gay-forward online workout program. Peter can’t look away, and before long, he’s not only transforming his body: he’s reckoning with his sexuality, too.

Peter emerges from the pandemic newly out and totally unprepared. Nevertheless, he dives headfirst into gay life, stumbling through app-fueled hookups, steamy underwear parties, and New York’s chaotic dating scene. His renewed rite of passage gets even more complicated when romantic tensions pit Peter’s loyal college roommate against the charming fitness coach who changed everything. If he can’t choose between them, he might lose them both.

Told with wry humor and aching honesty, Peter in Progress is the comic and crushing portrait of a man remaking himself in the aftermath of denial. It’s about the bodies we build, the stories we outgrow, and the courage it takes to start over—from within.

Andy Barrow is a New York–based writer whose debut novel, Peter in Progress, draws inspiration from his own later-in-life gay awakening. When he’s not writing, Andy is likely perfecting his backhand, chasing his next cold brew, or making up for lost time on the dance floor—preferably with ‘90s icons (Crystal, CeCe, Whitney…) on rotation. While embracing life as a gay man and author, Andy somehow manages to maintain a day job; he’s a proud educator who recently earned a doctorate in curriculum, instruction, and innovation.

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard University since 1998. At HGSE, he is core faculty in the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum, Online Master’s Program in Education Leadership, and Higher Education Concentration, and faculty chair of The B.R.A.V.E. Institute. At the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the first openly gay faculty member and still teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters, he is faculty chair of the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and faculty affiliate at the Center for Public Leadership. He is also a core faculty member in Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. An historian of social movements, he teaches courses on equity and education, communication and leadership, and the politics and history of creating change.

Lecturer on Education
Faculty Chair, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program (at Carr Center/HKS)

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