It wasn’t until the night after that reading, lying awake and beating myself up for not having a good answer, that I thought of a pretty good one. We are so steeped in for-profit social media today that it’s hard to remember anything else. I struggled to come up with a decent answer. So instead of celebrating myself, I want to use this opportunity to say thanks, and to think through some of the influences and experiences that shaped the novel.Īt one point in Nevada, Maria mentions the “stupid 2002 internet.” At a Q&A following a reading on the 2013 book release tour, I was asked what that meant. At the very least, this idea occludes the work other people had done that made Nevada possible. People have called Nevada “ground zero for modern trans literature,” and while I get that-before it was published, I don’t think I’d read a novel with a trans character who I didn’t at least sort of hate-I don’t really feel like a genius visionary who invented literature centering marginalized experiences. It’s been out of print for a few years, but in June, Farrar, Straus and Giroux will bring it back into print. You may or may not have heard of it, but if there are trans people in your life who are readers, they probably have. Photo courtesy of the author.Īlmost ten years ago, I published a novel called Nevada with a small press called Topside that doesn’t exist anymore.

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