"I Bite My Friends" is the lead piece in the current issue of GRANTA (#144)--and--it has just been reprinted in lithub!

"I Bite My Friends," set in the pre-AIDS, pre-gentrification New York in the 1970s, is my memoir of Stephen Varble, a self-described drag-queen "gutter artist" who was my best friend when I was fourteen. The piece is a haunted tribute to a lost artist and to a city "that not so long ago offered possibilities of wild, unsurveilled freedom and experimentation."