The academic setting is one that Taylor gravitates toward as a reader some of his favorite novels include The Idiot, by Elif Batuman; The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides; Harvard Square, by Andr Aciman; and Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff but he rarely sees people like himself when he reads them. He hopes Real Life changes that. What I wanted to do was to take this genre and this milieu that I really respond to as a reader and to sort of write myself into it, Taylor said.<\/p>\n
He channeled this desire into his first published piece of writing, the story Cold River, which appeared in 2015 in Jonathan, a literary journal published by Sibling Rivalry Press. He wrote the story as an undergraduate student, after he had gone to a bookstore in Montgomery but couldnt find the queer books he was looking for. When he asked the clerk if they had them, he said, the guy was like, Were a family store, we dont stock that kind of stuff here.<\/p>\n
Taylor considers himself primarily a short-story writer, but the desire to see people like him represented in literature led him to make his book debut with a novel. I had this feeling no one was going to take me seriously until I write this novel, he said. Im going to write a novel so that people will let me write short stories in peace.<\/p>\n
Stories are on the way. His next book is a collection, Filthy Animals, which will also be published with Riverhead.<\/p>\n
But now that Taylor has made space for himself in the world of novels, maybe hell stick around, he said. Over the summer, I was like Oh, maybe I will write another novel.<\/p>\n
Correction: Feb. 10, 2020An earlier version of this article misstated the publisher of the literary journal Jonathan. It is Sibling Rivalry Press, not Lambda Literary.<\/p>\n
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