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David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.
Kevin Sessums
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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.
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I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was a city upon a hill, which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.
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To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
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I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.
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