In his new book, Filthy Animals, Taylor returns to his roots as a short-story writer with a book of linked stories following a constellation of characters who navigate the physical and psychological pain of their lives while also bumping up against one another and the expectations of the people and institutions around them. He is a longtime short-fiction writer and working editor, and his writing is singular in its ability to capture detailed observations of relational dynamics and the settings they occur within. From fiction to memoir, these reads offer insightful, emotional, and necessary glimpses into the LGBTQ+ experience - both our own and those of others.īrandon Taylor’s debut novel, Real Life, was released in February 2020 and, despite the pandemic, created a major literary buzz and was short-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize for fiction, among other accolades. For Pride month 2021, Shondaland is looking at how we write our queer stories.
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