Cultivating Delight and Meaning with Ross Gay in “Inciting Joy” – Chicago Review of Books

Cultivating Delight and Meaning with Ross Gay in “Inciting Joy” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Ross Gay’s eloquence as a poet is matched by his fluency as an essayist, and over the last half dozen years his focus on the human condition has resulted in a number of justly praised books, including Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, The Book of Delights and Be Holding. The newest addition to that rich … Read more

Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land” – Chicago Review of Books

Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] With striking, poetic prose, Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land reveals a hidden life in the wide open spaces of the Midwest. The complexities of queerness in places where it can be lonely at best and dangerous at worst, and Brorby’s quest to find a space where he … Read more