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 Growing Copy Share Image
I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow… — Kevin Sessums Blow 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 Administrative Copy Share Image
That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there. — Kevin Sessums Students Copy Share Image
Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar… — Kevin Sessums Capes Copy Share Image
I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about. — Kevin Sessums Gay Copy Share Image
I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is… — Kevin Sessums Available Copy Share Image
I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never… — Kevin Sessums American people Copy Share Image
There's always a door you don't get in. I'm a star in my own right for certain things. I'll own that. During… — Kevin Sessums Certain Copy Share Image
Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another… — Kevin Sessums Shakers Copy Share Image
I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a… — Kevin Sessums Children Copy Share Image
Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and… — Kevin Sessums Disagree Copy Share Image
One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my… — Kevin Sessums Being judgmental Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary… — Kevin Sessums Demonstration Copy Share Image
"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you… — Kevin Sessums Different Copy Share Image
Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who… — Kevin Sessums Disappointed Copy Share Image
"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in. — Kevin Sessums Bigs Copy Share Image
[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There… — Kevin Sessums America Copy Share Image
You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed… — Kevin Sessums Declaration Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I… — Kevin Sessums Betrayed Copy Share Image
If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would… — Kevin Sessums Class Copy Share Image
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