Silence Is the Fertile Field: Talking with Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson discusses his new book, AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY.
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Posts Tagged: AIDS crisis
Larger Than Life: Talking with Alia Volz
Alia Volz discusses her debut memoir, HOME BAKED.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #212: Mark Bibbins
“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
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Diner Boys
But then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.
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The Real People: A Conversation with Rebecca Makkai
Rebecca Makkai discusses her forthcoming third novel, The Great Believers, how she arrived at the book’s structure, and the story and its characters.
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Faith, Gods, and Gay Sex: A Conversation with Matthew Gallaway
Matthew Gallaway discusses his second novel, #gods, moving from a big publishing house to an indie press, and why it was important to him to depict gay sex in writing.
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Life, the book. The long gay book. / Do you remember? Should you remember? / What are our stories about? In an essay for Lit Hub, Matthew Cheney narrates growing up during the AIDS crisis, and the intertwined relationships between his identity, the plays he clung to, the books he coveted, and the ghostly presences […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Jamie Brickhouse
Jamie Brickhouse discusses Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother, a memoir that chronicles his intimate, near-fatal journey through alcoholism, and living HIV positive.
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