Feeling Trapped

by | Nov 22, 2010 | The effects of bigotry

I saw a play the other night, a new play about a family in crisis over a question of forgiveness. Can they forgive the man who murdered their daughter? This led me to consider whether a dramatist could write that kind of drama about a gay family. Say, two gay men and...

The Pictures

by | Nov 16, 2010 | This website

Since 1982 I have taken many hundreds of pictures of the sites in which these three novels have been placed–Cardiff, Maine, a fictional version of Bangor, Maine, Commercial Street and Race Point in Provincetown, and Christopher Street in the West Village in New...

The myths we tell ourselves

by | Nov 9, 2010 | Writing

I was halfway through Ceremonies, when I began to get the feeling that there weren’t many other gay books like this. Books that placed their characters at the heart of the gay predicament—we live in a homophobic culture—and then listened while they told us how that...

The un-finality of finishing something

by | Nov 3, 2010 | Writing

We are working hard on the last jobs getting our website—http://www.dwightcathcart.net—up and running. We ask ourselves questions. Are there enough pictures? Do you have more pictures on your HD? What did Apple do to iPhoto 11 so that it won’t do what iPhoto 10 did...