![]() Greer’s protagonist Arthur mirrors these insecurities. There’s this whole new ‘bear’ category of gay men that has appeared in the last ten years, celebrating being middle-aged and manly. “Some hang on to, get plastic surgery - that’s horrifying. We have to have boyfriends and stick together.’… I would fall in love so quickly because that’s all there was.”Īs Greer’s generation began to define for the first time what it meant to be a middle-aged gay man in America, they also acutely felt the confusion of losing their youth. My generation was the first that said, ‘We can’t do that. “They were part of a sexual revolution where they thought coupling up was participating in a heteronormative narrative. I saw them in their twenties dying of AIDS,” Greer says. “There’s a whole generation ahead of me that didn’t live to grow old. As a writer, and as someone who has lived through reincarnations of queer identity and the evolving pace of gay relationships through the years, Greer is no stranger to ambiguity. Less explores the absurd ways we deal with uncertainty in travel, aging and relationships. Greer is at Sydney Writers Festival talking about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Less, in which Arthur Less - a gay novelist approaching fifty - escapes a recent heartbreak by attending literary events in far-flung locations, getting swept up in unlikely predicaments along the way. ![]() As Andrew Sean Greer sits down for our interview, he can’t avoid the irony of the situation. ![]()
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