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Michael Quinn

  • About/
  • Cultural Criticism/
    • Book Reviews
    • Quinn on Books
    • Gay Sensibility
  • Critical Influences/
  • Script Doctor/
  • Personal & Reported Essays/
  • Interviews/
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Michael Quinn

Critical Influences

Michael Quinn

  • About/
  • Cultural Criticism/
    • Book Reviews
    • Quinn on Books
    • Gay Sensibility
  • Critical Influences/
  • Script Doctor/
  • Personal & Reported Essays/
  • Interviews/
  • Contact/

Critical Influences is a blog about things that interest me personally—exploring how being gay shapes how I see the world.

I’m a Brooklyn-based professional critic, essayist, and storyteller writing about books, film, fashion, and more.

This is the place where I play with ideas, trace the root of my obsessions, and connect the dots between culture and identity.

What stories—or obsessions—have shaped you?


August 05, 2025

Footnotes from a Gay Sensibility

August 05, 2025/ Michael Quinn
Footnotes from a Gay Sensibility

Hairy legs, bare feet, and a sharp sense of humor: what Interview's sandal feature reveals about a gay sensibility.

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