Name: A conversation with actor, director and author Ed Burns
Start: 2024-10-01T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-01T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 2121 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134

A conversation with actor, director and author Ed Burns

Join us at our Parma-Snow Branch for a conversation with actor, filmmaker and author Ed Burns who will discuss his debut novel, "A Kid from Marlboro Road."
Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/9115498
Born in Woodside, Queens and raised on Long Island, Burns has made 14 feature films as a writer-director-actor and starred in many films, including "Saving Private Ryan." Burns’ first film "The Brothers McMullen," premiered in competition at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury prize. The film also won "Best First Feature" at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. In 2015, he published "Independent Ed," an inside look at his two decades as a pioneer in independent filmmaking. "A Kid from Marlboro Road" is his first novel, based on his childhood memories and the Irish American communities of the Bronx and Long Island. Burns lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
"A Kid from Marlboro Road" opens at a wake where "Kneeney," as his mother calls him, takes in the death of his beloved grandfather, Pop, a larger-than-life figure to him. The overflowing crowd includes sandhogs in their muddy work boots, old Irish biddies in black dresses and cops in uniform, along with the family in mourning. There’s an open casket, the first time he’s seen a dead person.
He watches it all, writing his observations for school projects, not yet realizing how this world defines and explains who he is and will be. His older brother Tommy has no patience for rules and domesticities, his father is emotionally elsewhere. Kneeney knows he’s the best thing his mother's got, though her sadness envelops them both.
Stories cascade between the prior generation’s colorful origins in the Bronx and Hell's Kitchen, and the softer world of Gibson, the town on Long Island where the family lives now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont Race Track, and in Montauk. Out of individual struggles a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American story, raucous and joyous.
Registration for this event is FREE. VIP tickets are also available for purchase.
🎫 Each VIP ticket ($30) includes:
✔ A copy of "A Kid from Marlboro Road"
✔ VIP seating at the event
✔ Signing line priority
✔ A donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation
🎫 Purchase VIP tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ed-burns-vip-ticket-tickets-945719511517?aff=oddtdtcreator
📕 Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry.