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Xtra chats with Michael Cunningham

By Nightfall author talks aging and younger men

By Xtra • October 20, 2010 8:00 pm EDT

Michael Cunningham is in Toronto for the International Festival of Authors. Xtra caught up with him to chat about aging, younger men, mesh tank tops and his latest novel, By Nightfall, an homage to Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice.

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