John R GordonJohn R. Gordon on his New Novel, Hark, and America’s Racist HistoryI wrote the first draft of Hark with only a vague sense of how it would end, and more and more as I went along it seemed that the past…Oct 16, 2020Oct 16, 2020
John R GordonJohn R Gordon’s Top Tips for WritersTip 1 — The most obvious tip is: Start. Writing, like most crafts, doesn’t do itself while you’re watching TV, scrolling through the…Oct 12, 2020Oct 12, 2020
John R GordonJohn R. Gordon on Writing Against “Love, Simon”When I read the YA novel Simon vs the Homo Sapien Agenda (filmed and later televised as Love, Simon) I found it curious in various ways…Oct 6, 2020Oct 6, 2020
John R GordonJohn R. Gordon On Race, Sexuality, Class and Horror in his new Novel, ‘Hark’My publisher, Rikki Beadle-Blair, my compadre for over 30 years in many artistic ventures and adventures, always used to say to me, ‘You…Sep 23, 2020Sep 23, 2020
John R GordonJohn R Gordon on How Audre Lorde’s Radical Feminism Changed MeVery late one night a couple of years ago I found myself urinating dark, goopy blood. Alarmed, I called NHS Direct. As I didn’t have a GP…Sep 3, 2020Sep 3, 2020
John R GordonJohn R Gordon on Why James Baldwin Matters Now More Than EverJames Baldwin is now so culturally centered, so quoted, so lionized — even if often still denuded of his sexuality (consider Raoul Peck’s…Aug 27, 2020Aug 27, 2020
