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Stag Dance: Torrey Peters on Lumberjacks and Creating Queer & Trans Literary Worlds

Stag Dance: Torrey Peters on Lumberjacks and Creating Queer & Trans Literary Worlds

Update: 2024-11-25
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett interviews novelist Torrey Peters about her intellectual and writerly formation, her early online novella publications, The Masker and Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, and her novel Detransition Baby (One World, 2021) which received the the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction, and was also named a Best Book of the Century by the New York Times. Peters also speaks about her forthcoming collection, Stag Dance (Random House, 2025), the fascinating history and idiom of queer and trans lumberjack culture, and fashioning queer and trans literary worlds.

 

Music Credit: "I Can't Shake the Stranger Out of You," Lavender Country

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Stag Dance: Torrey Peters on Lumberjacks and Creating Queer & Trans Literary Worlds

Stag Dance: Torrey Peters on Lumberjacks and Creating Queer & Trans Literary Worlds