“The struggle with writing all the time is that you, occasionally, have to go to unimaginable places.”
Tag: memoir
Finishing School
“It had to be written quickly, as these things are.”
Interview with Maggie Nelson
In the opening pages of The Red Parts Maggie Nelson describes her previously published Jane: A Murder, a sister book to this, as being “about how one might live—or, rather, how my family lived, […]
Queer Kid: Reviewing Justin Vivian Bond’s Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels – by Ted Kerr
Queer kids take their own lives all the time. For some reason last fall the media took notice and focused on the suicide of nine teenagers. In response sex columnist Dan Savage, with partner Terry […]