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’m always amazed when I talk to queers in this town
Not long after The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
who are not familiar with the name Tom Spanhauer.
was released, Spanhauer nearly died of AIDS complications,
I mean, are you kidding? Spanhauer is no less than a
and for a while it looked like the world was about to lose yet
national treasure with a cult following that circles the one more incredible talent to that horrible epidemic. But
glohe. He is a writer and a queer icon, and his works whatever trickster spirit-god it is who looks after queers and
address the deepest issues of what being queer means using
other
the outcasts, well, he had other plans. Thanks to the
boldest, frankest language imaginable.
“cocktail” and other advances in health care, Spanhauer
And he lives right here in Portland.
recovered and thrives.
Spanhauer is the author of four books, the newest being
During his illness and recovery, he struggled to finish In the
Now Is the H out , which will he released May 15. His most
City of Shy Hunters, which finally debuted an agonizing 10
famous is the Pulitzer-nominated The Man Who Fell in Love with
years after The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon. Shy
the Moon, which was named by The Advocate as one of the top
Hunters is a dark, angry tale of the rise of the AIDS epidemic,
100 gay and lesbian novels ever written. The book has been in
the Reagan-caused explosion in homelessness and one queer’s
continuous print since 1991—no small feat in these publishing search for family and identity in 1980s Manhattan. It was
times—and is considered by many to be one of the most origi released a few months before 9/11 and proved semi-prophetic
nal, radical and beautiful pieces of fiction in the past 50 years.
in its gritty, apocalyptic view of New York.
Throughout the years, Spanhauer and several colleagues
Since the release of Shy Hunters, Spanhauer has been very
have also become well-known for developing an approach to
busy: Love. Teaching. A new book.
fiction they call “Dangerous Writing.” This approach, simply
Spanhauer recently sat down in his Southeast Portland
put, asks writers to dig deeply into the darker recesses of their home to discuss life, writing and his new novel, which
experiences and write about these things with brutal honesty
explores such themes as bullies, Catholicism, racism, rural life
and without sentimentality.
and, of course, being queer.
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