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" Many intellectuals at the time—this is hard to imagine but true—believed real art could never explicitly deal with homosexuality. The poor gay artists had no alternative but to inflate whatever they might come up with by generalizing it. Edmund was, as they say, committing career suicide by writing about king dick. "

Tom Cardamone , Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book


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Tom Cardamone quote : Many intellectuals at the time—this is hard to imagine but true—believed real art could never explicitly deal with homosexuality. The poor gay artists had no alternative but to inflate whatever they might come up with by generalizing it. Edmund was, as they say, committing career suicide by writing about king dick.