Art & Kinship: Garrard Conley’s All the World Beside
![Image shows the authors Maud Newton and Garrard Conley standing behind a poster for Conley's memoir, BOY ERASED.](/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-24-at-11.18.27-PM-1024x834.png)
My latest newsletter is on Boy Erased author Garrard Conley‘s first novel, All the World Beside, a singular and magnificent work of art: tender, hopeful, shot through with dour fundamentalist judgment and a painful sense of separation, but also numinous and earthly connection. Also considered: the sins of the fathers, Puritan ancestors, epigenetics, queer kinship, and the musicality of his prose.
The image above shows Garrard Conley & me at the Boy Erased launch in Brooklyn, at Book Court (RIP), 2016.