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