On Earth with Ocean Vuong
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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American Failure - A Novel About American Masculinity
Thesis of this book is that we are actually trapped in these larger systems, even as we animate and move about them. How do you combat that feeling of being trapped? You said, i wanted to write about american failure because when we think of the tragedy, we think of it in relation to the queer body. The queer body fails, and therefore it's tragic. But what i want to refrain perhaps, is that american masculinity is a failure in itself in which no one thrives.
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