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Michael Quinn

  • About/
  • Cultural Criticism/
    • Book Reviews
    • Quinn on Books
    • Gay Sensibility
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  • Script Doctor/
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  • 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?


October 04, 2025

Here Comes "The Sun"

October 04, 2025/ Michael Quinn
Here Comes "The Sun"

After The Sun printed my letter about an essay that moved me, I saw how the magazine keeps readers and writers in conversation about the human spirit.

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