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Brooklyn Rail Interview

July 12, 2016

Thanks to Evan Lavender-Smith, a friend of mine and one of my favorite writers, for conducting a long (but not too long!) interview with me for the Brooklyn Rail.

New Critics at Large Piece

July 1, 2016

I wrote about Jim Downs’s “Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation” for Critics at Large.

Here’s a well-turned and approving article in the Guardian about the new novel. I sighed over the Millennial-baiting headline, which is in quotation marks but, I’m quite sure, isn’t a direct quote. (Almost always editors rather than reporters write headlines and treatments.) During the phone interview and to my instant […]

New York Times Dismissal

May 27, 2016

I first saw this largely negative New York Times review a few nights ago and didn’t lose sleep over it. Granted, I took ten milligrams of Zolpidem. A day later, I found myself cooking dinner, listening to the new Chance the Rapper album, and, to my surprise–dancing. As disappointments go, […]