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“My writing is concerned with the soul, with the unknown forces of the psyche. A British writer said I write under the skin, which I liked. In a spiritual sense, the real life of man is going on inside. It’s not what he says or does, it’s something else. The only way, I think, one…
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Reading William Styron’s obit last week reminded me of a literary symposium I attended a while back.Writing what you don’t know was the clever umbrella topic, but the moderator suggested the real issue had to do with writing outside one’s own experience—in this case, the “experience” being queerness.Notable was the response of one woman who…
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