In 2016, when my first book came out, I wrote an essay for the Story Prize blog titled “Why I Am Not a Poet”. It concluded: “Go out of bounds. If your true interests are those of poetry, it doesn’t matter if you’re not a poet.” That essay is something […]
At the end of February, my favorite critic of horror cinema, Willow Catelyn Maclay, wrote a piece for her Patreon titled “The Aesthetic of Loneliness in Horror”. It’s subscribers-only, so I won’t quote much from it here, but I’ve been thinking about it ever since I first read it, and […]
I felt guilty packing a bunch of gay male novels and story collections from the 1980s and early 1990s into a couple boxes and putting them in the attic, but I need shelf space for books I regularly read. Once upon a time, I dreamed of writing a book about […]
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