Writing Quotes by Kevin Sessums

Kevin Sessums

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There’s a big difference.

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Kevin Sessums

I don’t write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

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Kevin Sessums

I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at Columbia who were going into writing and filmmaking and everything, I said, “When I tried to think of what to say, the only subject I thought was appropriate for people doing what you’re going to do is rejection.” That’s what it’s all about.

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Kevin Sessums

I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing ‘Remembering Denny’ . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.

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Kevin Sessums

I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don’t look at themselves as being raped. We’re not raised that way.

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Kevin Sessums

Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it’s on the surface or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn’t exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren’t any gay people, as far as we knew, at Yale.

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Writing Quotes by Kevin Sessums

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There’s a big difference.

I don’t write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing ‘Remembering Denny’ . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.

I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don’t look at themselves as being raped. We’re not raised that way.

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