WISCONSIN / MANHATTAN — Big Bruiser Dope Boy is the author of Foghorn Leghorn, Your First Real Boyfriend (2019), and, most recently, After Denver (October 2020, 11:11 Press). He runs the site Gay Death Trance and lives in Wisconsin.

After Denver, from 11:11 Press: https://1111press.com/after-denver

Read the opening poem to After Denver, "Daddy State of Mind": https://www.youngmag.io/article/daddy-state-of-mind

CONTENTS

4 min - pod start

8 min - once a book is out there it’s out there

10 min - Pink absurdism / magical realism

13 min - how going in in 20s

16 min - “Doubt Doubt”

20 min - writing to be able to change yourself

21 min - on pseudonymity / BBDB’s inception

26 min - cnf vs fiction

29 min - the slab parts / homoeroticism of sports

32 min - coming outta the closet now vs 20 yrs ago

35 min - on “Gay Poet Here”

38 min - on bbdb’s process

40 min - edging on the rip / not going in till time

43 min - alternate writing modes / text messaging as writing

48 min - this type o writing is good for the culture / readability

51 min on working at gay bars / animal stuff / bear culture

59 - who After Denver written for

1 hr 4 min - on Death / strong fatalism