Author confesses in upcoming Boston event

Here's an e-mail from author Scott D. Pomfret. I'm setting up an interview with the satirist for EDGE:

I'm reading from my new book "Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir" on 1 p.m. on Monday, June 9 at Borders Books in Downtown Crossing and at 7 p.m. Friday, June 20 at Calamus Books, 92B South Street. If you're interested, I'd love for you to come and post on the events.

"Confession" is a funny, irreverent faith journey by a gay Catholic pursuing his Archbishop in the style of Michael Moore's Roger & Me that answers the perennial question, "What's a Nice Gay Catholic Part-time Porn Writer Doing in a Nasty Church Like This?"

As a practicing Catholic in a long-term committed gay relationship with a hardcore atheist, I try to reconcile faith with the hierarchy's bitter attacks on gay marriage, gay adoption, gay seminarians, Capri pants, innate style and anything else remotely homosexual.

Convinced that a meeting with the Archbishop would foster homo-Catholic rapprochement and world peace, I pursued the prelate from pulpit to Chancery to state funeral -- and ran into a host of motorcycle lesbians, gay priests, flaming friars, pious prelates, would-be Opus Dei monks, dozens of Irish women named Mary and angry orthodox bloggers along the way.

Addressing topics ranging from a firsthand account of a 1970s SWAT team raid of a gay Mass to "Ten Ways to Recognize a Gay Catholic" to Harry Potter's Satanism, Confession is one man's personal experience of wrestling with faith, doubt, sex, love and priestly undergarments.

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