I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Another example of what I have to put up with from him. But there was a time I was mad at all… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe." — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball.… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share
![“I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back telling me that Mr. Shawn [William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 to 1987] just didn't like this or didn't like that about what I submitted.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/042/kevin-sessums-9486_editors_i-just-so-desperately-wanted-to-be-publi_606050.jpg)
![“David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eae/kevin-sessums-9486_baseball_david-remnick-the-new-yorker-s-editor-in_636097.jpg)
![“Another example of what I have to put up with from him. But there was a time I was mad at all my straight friends when AIDS was at its worst. I particularly hated the New Yorker, where Calvin [Trillin] has published so much of his work. The New Yorker was the worst because they barely ever wrote…” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2d0/kevin-sessums-9486_aids_another-example-of-what-i-have-to-put-up_1035506.jpg)
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