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An Escape from a Stifling World in “I Felt the End Before It Came” – Chicago Review of Books

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An Escape from a Stifling World in “I Felt the End Before It Came” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “I hid my queerness for years,” Daniel Allen Cox writes in I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, his memoir-in-essays about coming of age within two conflicting identities: “I knew there was something wrong with me because the books and magazines told me so.” In these reading materials, … Read more

Dark Interior States in “What Happens at Night” – Chicago Review of Books

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Dark Interior States in “What Happens at Night” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] What Happens at Night is the latest masterpiece from Peter Cameron, a brazenly literary writer whose quietly ambitious novels and stories have for decades chronicled the frustrations and complications born from desire, as his often-troubled characters struggle toward true connection. And while his previous books have most often explored relationships between gay men, both … Read more