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““But the statement is unfair,” says James from his home in Brooklyn.”
““It’s not autofiction,” he specifies, “but it’s the first novel where I’m drawing so much from my life.”
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“The Disappearers , set in the smothering Kingston of his childhood, is his most personal work.”
““No faggot in Jamaica is living, we’re not even existing,” says Jordan.”
“And I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody really cares.” Eric Olson Marlon James profiles Riverhead Books The Disappearers Eric Olson Eric Olson is a journalist and critic based in Seattle.”
“An unblinking portrait of gay joy and pain in a society that derides gayness at every turn.”
“You can find his writing in The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Millions , The Daily Beast , The Seattle Times and elsewhere.”
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“Bigotry is kind of unimaginative in that way.” “Hanging, castrating,” Jordan rants to Eddy, “beheading, burning, beating, what else?”
“But when the anger finally ebbs—and it does, not often, but it does— The Disappearers channels the love and humor that makes its characters tick.”
“Was he out enough?”
“But James also interviewed dozens of queer Jamaicans while researching the book.”
“I fucking love it.”
“[…] I could fuck a pretty man.”
““In America,” he says, “I wouldn’t be cruising or anything.”
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“I had to wait six novels to do it.” Because each narrator inhabits a more advanced stage of sexual discovery, I ask James if they represent progressive facets of his own coming out.”
“Liking people who hate you is what the X-Men do.”