![]() His probing observations-“Miller’s thighs flashed. Taylor relishes in treading the line between science and art. Over the course of a steamy summer weekend, resentments, rivalries, and a nascent romance with a straight classmate reach their boiling points, and Wallace contemplates whether to stay or leave. Wallace, like Taylor once upon a time, is a biochem grad student navigating being black, gay, and Southern at a Midwestern university. Years of cutthroat competition and rampant microaggressions from colleagues and mentors alike convinced him that his path lay elsewhere.Īnd so, Taylor wrote Real Life, a brooding campus novel that’s lush in its interiority. In 2016, he walked away from a promising graduate career in biochemistry. But Taylor is no stranger to plot twists. Taylor was headed to a reading in Madison the day Wisconsin announced its first response to the coronavirus pandemic. Then, in the midst of his inaugural book tour, the world changed. His debut novel, Real Life, was a literary breakthrough, garnering praise from the likes of Roxane Gay, Garth Greenwell, and Jeremy O. This was not the publication year Brandon Taylor envisioned. ![]()
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