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Critical Influences

Michael Quinn

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  • Cultural Criticism/
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A blog that feels its way through the fog of ideas.

Short dispatches on the things that shape my ideas as a writer, critic, and human being.


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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critical influences, reading & identity, writing life, literary magazines
June 02, 2025

The Quiet Persistence of Poet Spencer Reece

June 02, 2025/ Michael Quinn
The Quiet Persistence of Poet Spencer Reece

Hundreds of rejections later, he sold something. That poem changed his life.

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June 02, 2025/ Michael Quinn/
LGBTQ+, literary criticism, reading & identity, writing life
LGBTQ, Literary Criticism, Reading & Identity, Writing Life, Pride, Pride Month, Poet, Poetry, Spencer Reece, The Secret Gospel of Mark, Seven Stories Press, Brooks Brothers, Writing Advice
March 08, 2025

The Book Club That Didn't Read Me

March 08, 2025/ Michael Quinn
The Book Club That Didn't Read Me

For years, I was part of a book club that shaped how I read—just as much by what we didn’t read as what we did.

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March 08, 2025/ Michael Quinn/
literary criticism, LGBTQ+, critical influences, writing life, reading & identity
LGBTQ+ books, book club, gay, book criticism, book critic

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