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Elements of a good story: juicy details, brutal honesty, painful conflicts, a weird landscape. And at “Guywriters: Small Town Boys — Gay Men Revisit Their Histories and Hometowns,” that’s what it’s all about. The featured writer is K.M. Soehnlein; this much-awarded person wrote the definitive gaydungsroman of the decade, The World of Normal Boys. He’s in his idiom here; look for literary backflips and fireworks. We’re currently crushing hard on another writer, Michael McAllister, whose story is mind-expanding in its barest-bones description: His parents both came out of the closet(s) within months of each other when he was in elementary school. He hoped he would grow up to be straight, but he gayed up in college and stayed that way — only his younger brother is straight, the freak. If this bear doesn’t have some funny things to say about small towns, we’ll eat our baseball hats. (We’re hedging our bets, actually — we loved his contribution to 2006’s From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up, so we know what McAllister is capable of.)
Fri., June 11, 7:30 p.m., 2010