Tayari's Blog: Thomas Glave in NYC

Posted by TayariJones on June 5, 2008 12:55 PM
Filed under Living For The City

Thomas Glave Mosaic


Last night I had the pleasure of meeting Thomas Glave at his reading at St. Marks in Manhattan. Thomas read from his open letter to the Prime Minister of Jamaica in response to his homophobia. Then he read a short story in the tradition of James Baldwin's "Going To Meet the Man" only the speaker is a woman and the topic is hair. He wrapped it up with an essay about the challenges of sharing the realities of his life with his straight friends.

After the reading, I got to chat for a while. So smart, so charming, so critical. Everything I love in a writer.

Links:

  • Interview with Steven Fullwood.
  • Glave featured in The Village Voice.
  • Glave's letter on why he felt he had to speak out.

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