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...riotous assemblage of types as various as the Deadly Sins. There are students who keep cigarettes in refrigerators and an inventor who, after a "brain attack," only moos. Secretaries sell Amway products by telephone, and computer nerds get million-dollar grants to work on "calf-free lactation." One whole chapter is given over to the inner thoughts and agonies of Earl Butz, a "very fastidious hog" who is described quite as sympathetically as the two-legged creatures around him: "At bottom, he was still the hog he had always been, the hog he was bound...
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...accounts, the events surrounding Grant's application to the College and the controversy that broke last week mark another unfortunate chapter in the life of a diligent student who has struggled to separate herself from her past in South Carolina...
...almost every chapter, an excerpt from a famous or important primary source is quoted. Sections of Havelock Ellis'Sexual Inversion, for example, explain the methods of the famed "sexologist." The unsettling passage from E.M. Forster's Maurice in which a troubled young man confesses his homosexuality to a dismissive, unsympathtic doctor sticks in the mind of the reader. While the use of primary sources in historical works is certainly not an original method, reading what intellectuals had to say about the gay experience of their era is invaluable to the reader's understanding...
Write about what you know. Sure. And if what you know is that you are stuck on Chapter 1, Page 1 of your third book, with critics and editors lurking and no idea in sight--what then, O most eloquent new voice (New York Times)? What now, O expert flyer of literary kites in swirling narrative flights (Philadelphia Inquirer...