Following the relationship between two men over 20 years, August Thompson’s evocative debut novel Anyone’s Ghost cuts to the heart what it means to want someone as much as you want to be them
NL: The word ‘queer’ is obviously controversial because for some LGBTQ+ people it remains incredibly triggering. But I do think it can be helpful for others because it allows for ambiguity. You don’t have to specify ‘how gay’ you are. AT: Yeah. I wish so badly it was a term I knew or that was used when I was growing up. Back then, bisexuality was not really a common thing .
To me, Anyone’s Ghost is part of the new vanguard of work moving the conversation on from ‘toxic masculinity’, which has become such a reductive term. AT: 100 per cent. I mean, in the last ten years, there’s been this idea of treating maleness as evil and femininity as an aspirational thing, which I don’t inherently disagree with. And as a queer, tender person, I did feel really restricted by masculinity. I just didn’t know how to fit in and stuff like that.
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