TOLLAND – Author and journalist Denis Horgan returns to the Tolland Public Library on Sept. 12 to discuss his latest book, “The Bangkok World.”
His free talk will be held at 7 p.m. at the library at 21 Tolland Green as part of the Tolland Public Library Foundation’s popular Eaton-Dimock-King Authors Series.
Horgan’s book is a memoir recounting his days as a U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam War and his time as editor of “The Bangkok World” newspaper in Thailand. The book is a love letter to a beautiful country that Horgan, a native of Dorchester, Mass., describes in vivid detail.
Faith Middleton, host of WNPR’s Book Show, has called Horgan “a master storyteller.” With Horgan, she said, “words do not separate you from the story. You are in it with Denis Horgan and you just don’t want to stop reading.”
“The Bangkok World” is Horgan’s fourth book. He came to Tolland as an Eaton-Dimock-King author in 2011 to discuss his collection of short stories, “Ninety-Eight Point Six…and other stories.”
A West Hartford resident, Horgan was a popular longtime columnist at The Hartford Courant and previously worked at newspapers in Boston, Dublin and
Washington, D.C.
Registration is required for the talk. To register, call the library at 860-871-3620.
The series, funded by the Phoebe Dimock King and Elizabeth C. King Eaton
Endowment, has previously brought writers Susan Schoenberger, Jeff Goldberg,
Lucy Anne Hurston, Jane Haddam, P.W. Catanese, Dan Barry and Dawn Metcalf to the Tolland library.

A young Denis Horgan during his Thailand reporting days