Men Haunting Men: A conversation with Richard Mirabella
Maybe being haunted is just feeling something crooked nearby
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...more“Is this sex?” “No.” “Is this sex?” “No.” “How about now?” “Maybe.” “I think so.” “Probably.”
...moreI have great affection for writers who come into their queerness after they’ve already written books . . .
...moreSafety requires setting up clear boundaries, but a restricted life is lonely and isolating and often impossible to bear.
...moreI developed two books. One I called “The Gay Book,” and one I called “The North Dakota Book.” Well, those are the same book, as you can imagine.
...moreThis is a carousel that never slows to a point where you can board gracefully.
...moreIt’s heavier than I thought it would be, and stiffer. The cotton drill fabric has the feel of an army jacket. The snaps and clasps and buckles have a certain sensuality, a resonance of kink, but otherwise, in color and heft, the garment is as ordinary as any one of the many pairs of pants […]
...moreI’m the only deaf person at the party, again.
...moreThen there is the bathroom issue. My beloved is like me, like you, like anyone. Sometimes a person has to go.
...moreThere’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.
...more“So it’s a surprise to you—and not entirely a pleasant one—when you fall in love with someone who has a penis. You thought you’d set up defenses against the possibility, but here he is, and here you are, loving him.”
...moreIt’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreThe path down to the riflery range was steep and winding, littered with roots.
...moreThe words blur, become meaningless. You need them to be meaningless.
...moreThe experience, rather than linear, is borealian.
...moreChristopher Gonzalez discusses his debut story collection, I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT.
...more“…each month I embrace a kind of death within my womb that offers me a life I can live with.”
...moreRyka Aoki discusses her second novel, LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS.
...moreI feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.
...moreMattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE.
...moreChristopher Gonzalez discusses his debut story collection, I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT.
...moreTo be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
...moreStacey Waite talks about her poetry collections BUTCH GEOGRAPHY and THE LAKE HAS NO SAINT.
...moreMorbid humor exists for a reason: to poke fun at our inevitable ends and lighten its emotional load.
...moreIt is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
...more“It was like wandering through my own labyrinth.”
...moreRajiv Mohabir discusses ANTIMAN and CUTLISH.
...morePoems echo, rebound, and speak to one another.
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