"There’s a fine line between privacy and shame..." Read More
Michael Cunningham: On Writing Sex, the Creative Process, and Why New York City is (Not) for Writers
"Eroticism is difficult to write about, I think, because everybody’s sense of the erotic is so personal, and so private. What’s hot to me might very well be repellent to you, and vice versa." Read More
"The Lesbian Avengers were enormous! Dykes were inspired to start groups all over the world, not just in New York and San Francisco. In its heyday during the 1990s, there were at least sixty Lesbian Avenger chapters." Read More
"In Nochita, you've got a bunch of queens living in a single room in the Tenderloin. You've got a nerdy entrepreneur with brand-new black jeans and his pinball machine in his office. You've got fancy diners being accosted by nude revelers. It was the late nineties for sure. Now I think people save their nudity for Burning Man." Read More
"The book is not against gay marriage. Or any kind of marriage, as a private sacrament with no connection to government or law. It’s against marriage as a legitimate legal institution." Read More
"I'm actually really into pretending that I'm Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom for my readings. I like to put on my antique crystal earrings and a chic frock, and reading in an almost bedtime story style, this utterly malicious and repugnant novel." Read More
"If I were to write a memoir, it would be 12,000 pages and it would be, 'And then he walked in through the door, and he sat down.' It would be boring, totally boring." Read More
"When it came to taking care of my crazy mom, I didn’t know exactly what I was getting into, but I knew who she was—so I had a pretty good idea of how intense it might get." Read More
"...I think the characters I write are freaks, but that does not mean I don’t completely and voraciously respect and love them. The word itself denotes something on display, as in a carnival or sideshow freak, so I think the way I see 'freaks' in what I do is that they somehow cannot hide their aberrations—they have to exist in a world that gawks at them, tries to fix or hide them." Read More
"Someone asked me, 'Did you think of the book as political?' and of course it is. This is what interests me. I could be writing about two hamsters running on a wheel and it becomes political." Read More
