![]() ![]() Horwitz was born in 1941 and raised in Skokie, Illinois, and had traveled and worked in Europe. In Horwitz, Monette had met the "laughing man," and together they brought it off: "And from that moment on the brink of summer's end, no one would ever tell me again that men like me couldn't love." " That same trip later gave Monette the setting for a sex scene in his first novel.ĭuring Monette's years in the closet, he longed to see "two men in love and laughing." He "also felt this hollow dread, that I'd finally meet the laughing man and let him slip away because I didn't really believe I could bring it off." On September 3, 1974, Monette was introduced to Roger Horwitz at a party given by Richard Howard in Boston. Certainly, my writing would never be the same. ![]() McClatchy during a trip in June 1974 to Sea Island, Georgia showed Paul Monette that there was not just gay sex but a gay sensibility: ".t was a watershed, to think that I could tap into that sensibility, however little I understood it yet. Conference and Exhibition, UCLA Charles E. One Person's Truth: The Life and Work of Paul Monette (1945-1995). ![]()
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