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‘A Theory of Small Earthquakes’: Q&A With Meredith Maran
Meredith Maran (Lisa Keating Photography) A Theory of Small Earthquakes (Soft Skull Press; 352 pages) is the first novel by award-winning author Meredith Maran. Known for her several nonfiction books,...
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The Archaeology of Gossip: Edmund White’s ‘Inside A Pearl: My Years in Paris’
In 1983, with a Guggenheim fellowship and his acclaimed novel A Boy’s Own Story in tow, Edmund White left what he calls New York’s “gay ghetto” and moved to Paris. The site of what White thought would...
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Under the Volcano: ‘Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was’ by Sjon
Sjon’s latest novel, Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Books, 145 pages), set in Reykjavik in 1918, is the story of sixteen-year-old Máni Steinn (a.k.a. Moonstone). The boy’s...
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A World with No Use for Her Perfect Queer Self: ‘Notes of a Crocodile’ by Qiu...
In 1994, the Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin published Notes of a Crocodile (NYRB Classics; 254 pages), a masterwork of fiction that plumbs same-sex desire while satirizing homophobic society; a year...
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