In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of ‘coming out’.
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‘In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of “coming out”. It was called getting caught.’
In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of ‘coming out’.
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Allan Gurganus’s novella, ‘Blessed Assurance’ was published in Granta 32. A collection of his stories, White People, was published by Faber & Faber and Alfred A. Knopf in 1991. His most recent novel is Plays Well With Others (1997).
More about the author →‘RALEIGH–A former funeral home employee charged with having sex with a body he was transporting pleaded guilty Wednesday after a psychiatrist testified that the man had sexual problems and that the incident probably was an isolated one.’
‘He was our younger sister’s baby – her and her husband’s baby, I guess. They were young parents and excessively chill.’
Memoir by Emma Cline.
‘Why can’t the heart keep still and why isn’t the brain smooth to the touch.’
An excerpt from Ariana Harwicz’s novel Tender.
‘Architecture can be employed as a form of violence and violation.’
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