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Edmund White Has Nothing He Won't Say At This Point

In a two-hour interview alongside his husband Michael Carroll, the "paterfamilias of gay fiction," 85, didn't even flinch when I asked, after a shocker, "Are you sure you want that in the interview?"

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Tim Murphy
Mar 10, 2025
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Ed at home (photo courtesy of Michael Carroll)

Hey Caftaners! I hope you are all hanging in there. Perhaps I assume that all of you (or perhaps 99.9% of you) are as freaked out, angry and sad about th…

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