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On Guest Blogging by the Tsarina: Henry Miller
In which The Tsarina takes over The Gay Recluse. On your entry tonight, The Tsarina remarks by quoting Henry Miller (1941): “There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.… more →
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On Guest Blogging by the Tsarina: Henry Miller
Matthew Gallaway wrote 8 months ago: In which The Tsarina takes over The Gay Recluse. On your entry tonight, The Tsarina remarks by quoti … more →
On the George Washington Bridge Project: Mind Games
Matthew Gallaway wrote 8 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with the George Washington Bridge. Today I fi … more →
On The George Washington Bridge Project: Crime of the Century
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 9 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with the George Washington Bridge. Today we s … more →
On The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 10 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse ponders Junot Diaz and the purpose of novels. Today we finished The Brief a … more →
On The Rest Is Noise
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 10 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse recommends a book about music. When we finished The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ros … more →
On The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-Present
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 10 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse recommends a scholarly work. Recently we heard from Scott Gunther, an old f … more →
On the Smallest People Alive
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 11 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse files a book report. The Smallest People Alive is a collection of short sto … more →
On Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 11 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse writes a book report. Just as the snow began, we finished Among Other Thing … more →
On The Book of Getting Even
Matthew Gallaway wrote 11 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse files a book report.* In The Book of Getting Even (a title we love, btw!) b … more →
On the George Washington Bridge Project: Special Thomas Pynchon Edition
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse considers the dark ages. So today we were reading about the new Thomas Pync … more →
On The Manhattan Times: Our Favorite Uptown Newspaper Writes about The Metropolis Case
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse loves The Manhattan Times. Hey, so The Manhattan Times wrote a charming (if … more →
On the Inappropriate Use of Cocksucking Metaphors by Literary Dudebro Critics
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse says wtf, dudebro? Although it’s not impossible to imagine a scenario … more →
On The Metropolis Case
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which Matthew Gallaway aka your local gay recluse gets a book deal. Eight or nine years ago, we d … more →
On the Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse loves Carson McCullers. Not long ago we finished reading The Heart Is a Lon … more →
On David Foster Wallace
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse remembers David Foster Wallace. When we turned 28 or 29, our friend Marla g … more →
On the George Washington Bridge Project: Special James Baldwin Edition
Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with the George Washington Bridge. “Lov … more →
On the George Washington Bird Project
Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with birds. It was raining pretty hard, but w … more →
On The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara and a Few Thoughts on Whether Gay Culture Is Really Dead
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse files a book report and rambles on. Recently we finished The First Time I M … more →
On How Incredibly Fucked Up: Book of Closet Cases Wins Lambda Literary Award for Men's Fiction
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Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse is rather perturbed. Hey, apparently all it takes to win a Lambda Literary … more →
