Tanya Mosley
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This is so fascinating to me because your writing is so expansive. You surprise me. You surprise the reader, not really with the choices on who you spend time on and write about, but how you write about them. People like Joan Didion, Eminem, Prince. I think I heard you say that you primarily are interested in subjects that don't, quote, have their face yet. What do you mean by that?
This is so fascinating to me because your writing is so expansive. You surprise me. You surprise the reader, not really with the choices on who you spend time on and write about, but how you write about them. People like Joan Didion, Eminem, Prince. I think I heard you say that you primarily are interested in subjects that don't, quote, have their face yet. What do you mean by that?
This is so fascinating to me because your writing is so expansive. You surprise me. You surprise the reader, not really with the choices on who you spend time on and write about, but how you write about them. People like Joan Didion, Eminem, Prince. I think I heard you say that you primarily are interested in subjects that don't, quote, have their face yet. What do you mean by that?
They knew their angles.
They knew their angles.
They knew their angles.
One person that you've written quite extensively about is Richard Pryor. Uh-huh. I'm fascinated that you write about him not because, I mean, it's obvious that he was one of the most talented comedians of our time, but you write about him in such an expansive way through time. I mean, you've gone back to him many, many times.
One person that you've written quite extensively about is Richard Pryor. Uh-huh. I'm fascinated that you write about him not because, I mean, it's obvious that he was one of the most talented comedians of our time, but you write about him in such an expansive way through time. I mean, you've gone back to him many, many times.
One person that you've written quite extensively about is Richard Pryor. Uh-huh. I'm fascinated that you write about him not because, I mean, it's obvious that he was one of the most talented comedians of our time, but you write about him in such an expansive way through time. I mean, you've gone back to him many, many times.
I'd like for you to read an excerpt from your collection of essays that was also included in your collection of essays, White Girls, which came out in 2013. And in this excerpt, it's actually called A Prior Love.
I'd like for you to read an excerpt from your collection of essays that was also included in your collection of essays, White Girls, which came out in 2013. And in this excerpt, it's actually called A Prior Love.
I'd like for you to read an excerpt from your collection of essays that was also included in your collection of essays, White Girls, which came out in 2013. And in this excerpt, it's actually called A Prior Love.
I think for many people, Pryor definitely felt like a unicorn. I mean, he joked on stage, for instance, about some of his queer sexual experiences in ways that I kind of feel like are unfathomable for someone else to do. Have you been able to point out or understand that singularity that was Pryor, that person before the fame, and why he could convey what others couldn't?
I think for many people, Pryor definitely felt like a unicorn. I mean, he joked on stage, for instance, about some of his queer sexual experiences in ways that I kind of feel like are unfathomable for someone else to do. Have you been able to point out or understand that singularity that was Pryor, that person before the fame, and why he could convey what others couldn't?
I think for many people, Pryor definitely felt like a unicorn. I mean, he joked on stage, for instance, about some of his queer sexual experiences in ways that I kind of feel like are unfathomable for someone else to do. Have you been able to point out or understand that singularity that was Pryor, that person before the fame, and why he could convey what others couldn't?
Can you clarify why you didn't want to talk with Pryor? Was it because he was so sick at that time?
Can you clarify why you didn't want to talk with Pryor? Was it because he was so sick at that time?
Can you clarify why you didn't want to talk with Pryor? Was it because he was so sick at that time?
You have to fall in love with them. At first. But then you have to interrogate that love.
You have to fall in love with them. At first. But then you have to interrogate that love.