![]() It was the first gay community I found in the pre-global internet in Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. ![]() ![]() I think it’s very dangerous that it shut down other possibilities of gay life.Ĭruising has been central in my life since I was 14 years old. Marriage equality was an important battle, and I think that it’s tragic that the battle came at the cost of other issues in which lives are at stake. I am glad that this vision exists because it opened a space and possibility that didn’t exist before. There’s this sort of scrubbed, PR vision of gay life, the marriage equality vision of gay life. ![]() We don’t talk about cruising much in the age of apps and as the national conversation on gay life has turned to marriage equality. This is a novel very much about “cruising”. Especially when he first introduces characters, there is a Dashiell Hammett-style forthrightness and clarity to it. That said, Greenwell’s exquisitely detailed writing has a distinctly American directness to it. There is a European literary quality to the way he transports the reader to Bulgaria, reminiscent of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled or Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. ![]() In the book Greenwell recreates the jet-lag-like feeling of an American abroad for the reader, at once restless and sleepy, anxious but alert. ![]()
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