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Self-made man

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Transgressing Familiarity: Talking with Thomas Page McBee

  • Garrard Conley
  • September 10, 2018
Thomas Page McBee discusses his new memoir, AMATEUR.
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SELF-MADE MAN #32: Grief is the Price We Pay for Love

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • July 13, 2015
My son, Mom said, even when it must have been so hard for her to rewrite the moment I was born, the one that belonged to her alone.
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On a More Personal Level

  • Bryan Washington
  • February 4, 2015
Guernica interviews Rumpus columnist Thomas Page McBee; he touches on his upcoming novel, American masculinity, and his steady transition across genders and cultures: I didn’t transition until I was thirty.…
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Strand and The Rumpus Special Event!

  • Roxie Pell
  • October 28, 2014
If you’re in NYC, swing by the Strand tomorrow at 7 p.m. to hear Rumpus columnist Thomas Page McBee present his new memoir Man Alive. The author explores manhood, identity,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Thomas Page McBee

  • Anisse Gross
  • October 1, 2014
The Rumpus talks to contributor Thomas Page McBee about his new book, Man Alive, heteronormativity, getting mugged, living in New York City, and what it really means to be a man.
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Self-Made Man Alive

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 9, 2014
Rumpus columnist Thomas Page McBee has just released a new memoir, Man Alive. The new book is, in his words, “basically a prequel” to the Self-Made Man column, and attempts to…
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Modern Man Defined

  • The Rumpus
  • June 20, 2014
Yesterday, Rumpus columnist Thomas Page McBee kicked off his new series, “The American Man,” over at the Pacific Standard. Featuring “gonzo reporting from barber shops, boxing gyms, frat houses, and…
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Self-Made Man #26: Wild

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • December 30, 2013
The wild don’t build fences; we let the worms and ivy and rats and love in.
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Self-Made Man #22: Second Person

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • May 31, 2013
I guess that’s what the dream wants: for me to know that the worst kind of man, the man I was scared of becoming, doesn’t frighten me any more.
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SELF-MADE MAN #21: Love Your Zombie

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • April 11, 2013
Sometimes I get this ragged wind in my chest. It’s a graveyard in there, too: instead of clothes holding my ghost shape, it’s my old self that calls out from beneath bone.
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SELF-MADE MAN #19: Notes on Negative Space

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • January 14, 2013
I’ve known what many would call evil: child abuse, a close call with a murderer. I know about other people’s dark impulses, and so I’ve been all the more terrified of my own.
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SELF-MADE MAN #18: In Real Life

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • November 28, 2012
I used to believe that collapsing the Venn diagram-space between the public and private self was the best way to ensure authenticity.
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