"I’m really afraid of repeating myself or writing a book that just doesn’t need to exist for me. I don’t want to get to the point where I’m just writing stuff, where everybody’s like, 'here’s another one of these stupid books...' Read More
"We should all use time machines to go back and tell ourselves how cute we are in our twenties because everyone is, but we won't realize it until we're middle-aged."
With his new novel, Remembrance of Things I Forgot (University of Wisconsin Press), author Bob Smith becomes the ultimate genre mixer. The book is a time-traveling yarn, a political farce, a comedic examination of our recent past, and a heartrending tale of familial and romantic love.
Smith took some time to talk with Lambda Literary about his new novel, comedy writing and his own 80s past. Read More
"I tend to write about people, who like myself to some degree, are loners by temperament, or live in their own sort of imaginative world. I think I tended to do that a fair bit actually. That has more interest to me than writing a happy love story..."
Lambda talks with Alan Hollinghurst about poetry, publishing, love, money and, of course, beauty. Read More
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“I absolutely believe that writing and publishing erotica, especially for minorities, is a political act. We must write our own...
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“Lots of women write about men, but I suppose, unfortunately, it’s still a surprise when a man attempts to write...
“There are those who believe that Gay Liberation started at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969....
