.samlansky talks about representing queer joy and pain in storytelling and moving into fiction with his new novel, BrokenPeople.
Sam Lansky is channeling his life story for another compelling and honest story., something surprising happened: people said they related to his story.
There's such a present autobiographical aspect to the book for those who read your memoir. What was channeling your experiences into a fictional character like for you? I came to L.A. and found myself changing in response to the ways the culture seemed really different, and I really wanted to write about that. That was really clear to me from the jump that the culture of wellness, the culture of self-improvement and self-optimization, the culture of believing that you can pay people to fix or change you, all of that was endlessly fascinating to me and a space that I really wanted to dig in to.
I write about this quite a bit in the book, I feel really strongly about and come from a really emotional place on the subject of the body. Especially the queer body. I feel like so much of my pain throughout my life has been connected to the culture of body fascism among gay men. The pathological privileging of a specific, white, muscular, Western idealized version of beauty that is so phenomenally narrow and rigid and limiting and racist and exclusionary.
There's an increase in the range of types of queer literature recently. Do you feel excited about this moment as a queer writer?
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