Humorist, novelist, essayist and radio talk show host Colin McEnroe will be the featured reader on Feb. 24 at Westminster School’s Friday Night Readings Series. The series features readings given by guest writers and Westminster students on selected Fridays during the academic year. The student reader will be senior Kathleen Gudas whose short story was the winning entry in the Senior English Short Story Writing Contest.
For 16 years, McEnroe hosted a talk show on WTIC-AM radio and currently hosts “The Colin McEnroe Show” on WNPR. He also writes a daily blog, “To Wit,” and is a weekly columnist for the Hartford Courant. His columns have won numerous national awards and appeared in hundreds of newspapers. His writing appears in several anthologies of humor writing and prose. He also teaches graduate seminars at Trinity College on the digital world and mass media’s coverage of American politics.
McEnroe’s books include two humor collections “Swimming Chickens” and “Lose Weight Through Great Sex With Celebrities (the Elvis Way),” and a memoir, “My Father’s Footprints.” He has been a contributing editor at Best Life, Men’s Health, Mirabella and Mademoiselle. He has also written for the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Funny Times, Forbes FYI, Backpacker and a dozen other magazines.
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The Westminster School reading is free and open to the public and will take place from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the Armour Academic Center. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the reading and ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to the Armour Academic Center.
