“Ultimately, this book is about denying yourself nothing.”
author Casey McQuiston has been at the forefront of the queer rom-com novel boom of the past five years, and certainly knows a thing or two about titillating their audience. But the nonbinary author’s most recent love story, this year’smarks their most mature work to date. “It was fun to write a book where my main priorities were about art, culture, wine, food, and travel,” McQuiston told.
seems to intentionally avoids framing nonbinary or queer identity as a plot point. What inspired this narrative decision? It's absolutely intentional. I think a lot about the word ‘important’ when it's applied to queer fiction, and how there's pressure for queer stories to justify their existence by having some kind of message or by inspiring people. I'm always very thankful it's applied to my work, at the same time, I was interested in challenging the idea of what a piece of art about queer and trans love had to be to exist.
Across your novels, your characters are always the heart of the story. How do you compare the central pairings in your books—for instance, Theo and Kit inI'm open about being a character-first writer and very attached to my characters. Someone on tour asked: ‘How do you detach after you finish a story to move on to the next?’ My answer is that I don’t. These characters are always living with me. I still think about them all the time.
It’s also fun to play in a different world than the book. I see them as a version of Alex and Henry who had different circumstances that set them up on their paths toward each other, and so that’s gonna ripple along to the storytelling for them. It’s been interesting to sit down with Matthew to figure out how we bring in things from the book, while still allowing these two characters in this version of their story to find their way.
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