Men Haunting Men: A conversation with Richard Mirabella
Maybe being haunted is just feeling something crooked nearby
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...moreBoys were boys and girls were girls and gender norms were there for a reason. We didn’t realize the reason was to keep women down. Maybe we just didn’t care.
...moreMy father didn’t like my movie choices. He said they weren’t realistic. He’d been in the Air Force and was deployed in Vietnam. He’d brought back his own war stories.
...moreJames Tate Hill discusses his new memoir, BLIND MAN’S BLUFF.
...moreGene Kwak discusses his debut novel, GO HOME, RICKY!
...moreTo ghost, to refuse, to satisfy yourself with yourself, felt impossibly newfangled, like something I’d like to try.
...moreIf I were to stare into a mirror, I’m not sure I would see anything back.
...moreTo say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
...moreHe could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
...moreAlex McElroy discusses their debut novel, THE ATMOSPHERIANS.
...moreFor as long as I can remember, I wanted to be strong, to be tough. I didn’t want to be soft.
...moreThe brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.
...moreSonora Jha discusses her new book, HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON.
...moreI am making progress, but progress is slow.
...more“I think about loss as echoes or circular structures.”
...moreCortney Lamar Charleston discusses his new poetry collection, DOPPELGANGBANGER.
...moreWhere my masculinity dwells, I am in control.
...more“I always knew I wanted to write a queer saint holy book.”
...moreLanguage enacts violence through manipulation.
...moreEnzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
...moreMatthew Baker discusses his new story collection, WHY VISIT AMERICA.
...more“I’m interested in beautiful events that are wrong.”
...moreSzczepan Twardoch discusses his novel, THE KING OF WARSAW.
...moreCooper Lee Bombardier discusses his first book, PASS WITH CARE: MEMOIRS.
...moreIt is an unimaginable gift until you’ve done it, shaving off a self.
...moreGirlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
...moreIf the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
...moreBishakh Som discusses her debut graphic story collection, APSARA ENGINE.
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