“The struggle with writing all the time is that you, occasionally, have to go to unimaginable places.”

“The struggle with writing all the time is that you, occasionally, have to go to unimaginable places.”
“It had to be written quickly, as these things are.”
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 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 […]