EARFULL is a performance series featuring writers and musicians doing their respective things in an intimate setting. On Wednesday, November 19th we welcome authors Peter Orner and Michael Patrick McDonald*, and musical acts Dead Gowns and Future Teens acoustic duo. TICKET LINK * Unfortunately, NICK FLYNN had to postpone his reading. Sitting in for Nick, we have his good friend and Earfull alum MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD, reading from his own work as well as Nick’s. Born in Chicago, Peter Orner is the author of seven acclaimed books including Maggie Brown & Others, Love and Shame and Love, Esther Stories (finalist for the Pen/ Hemingway Award), and Am I Alone Here? (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Best American Stories, and been awarded four Pushcart Prizes. A former Guggenheim fellow and recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Orner is chair of the English and Creative Writing Department at Dartmouth College. He lives with his family in Vermont, where he’s also a volunteer firefighter. His most recent novel is The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter (Little Brown, 2025). Dead Gowns is the project of Portland-Maine singer-songwriter Geneviève Beaudoin. In her latest collection, the HOW EP, she pushes “expressive arrangements and raw melodies into a glowing spectacle” (Foxy Digitalis). Both urgent and sincere, it’s “the sound of a songwriter coming good on all her promises and then some” (For the Rabbits). Vinyl Me, Please, named Dead Gowns a VMP Rising Artist in 2023 and with it, released an expanded version of HOW which is now available on vinyl and all streaming platforms. For Earfull, Geneviève will be joined by Dead Gowns guitarist Luke Kalloch. Michael Patrick MacDonald is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, which won the American Book Award, a New England Literary Lights Award, and an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. All Souls was recently released as a 25th Anniversary New Edition with a new afterword and speaking tour. MacDonald is Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University's Honors Department, where he teaches “Non Fiction Writing and Social Justice Issues” as well as a course abroad studying peace-building in the North of Ireland through a decolonial lens. At Harvard University Summer School, he teaches “Storytelling and Global Justice,” and he writes and speaks on topics ranging from race and class in America to transforming trauma, to voice, agency, and leadership and is currently writing his third book of narrative nonfiction. Future Teens is a Boston-based alternative/indie emo band, formed in 2014, known for their catchy and introspective "bummer pop" music that explores themes of love, loss, and growing up with a blend of confessional lyrics and upbeat melodies. Says WBUR: "...the Future Teens is a band whose sensibilities lie in dismantling pop paradigms and reconfiguring the pieces into something earnest, but inherently funny."