Charlotte NC library reading
From the Charlotte Observer: "Charlotte-Mecklenburg public library director Robert Cannon apologized Tuesday for a sexually explicit reading at the publicly funded Novello Festival of Reading. N.C. native Jim Grimsley read a 15-page excerpt of his book 'Boulevard' last Wednesday at the Neighborhood Theatre, shortly after a speech by a children's author. The novel, Grimsley's fifth, tells the story of a young gay man who moves to late 1970s New Orleans and works in an adult bookstore. Though not the most graphic part of 'Boulevard,' the excerpt Grimsley read is R-rated and then some, with coarse language, references to homosexual sex and descriptions of items in the store."
