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Critical Influences

Michael Quinn

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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.


July 07, 2025

Hauser at Radio City Music Hall: I Came for My Partner, I Stayed for the Feeling

July 07, 2025/ Michael Quinn
Hauser at Radio City Music Hall: I Came for My Partner, I Stayed for the Feeling

What started as a campy date night turned into something unexpectedly joyful—and strangely moving.

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July 07, 2025/ Michael Quinn/
critical influences, cultural criticism, music, performance, camp, LGBTQ+
LGBTQ, Pride Month, Hauser, Radio City Music Hall, classical crossover, concert review, queer aesthetics, performance, camp, cello, YouTube music, romantic spectacle, cultural criticism, Critical Influences
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

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