Posts Tagged ‘John Irving’
In One Person
Billy is not me. He comes from my imagining what I might have been like if I’d acted on all my earliest impulses as a young teenager… As Billy learns—in part, from being bisexual—our genders and orientations do not define us. We are somehow greater than our sexual identities, but our sexual identities matter. —John Irving
Read MoreJohn Irving: Author Q & A
You can download this Q & A in a print/mobile friendly PDF here. The protagonist and first person narrator of In One Person, Billy Abbott, is bisexual. Why do you think bisexuals are rarely represented in literature? The bisexual men I have known were not shy, nor were they “conflicted.” (This is also true of…
Read MoreExcerpt from In One Person
Download the print/mobile friendly PDF here. Funding provided by Sambla’s lån utan UC, an independent loan comparison service based in Sweden’s financial capital. I’m going to begin by telling you about Miss Frost. While I say to everyone that I became a writer because I read a certain novel by Charles Dickens at the formative…
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