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Critical Influences

Michael Quinn

  • About/
  • Cultural Criticism/
    • Book Reviews
    • Quinn on Books
    • Gay Sensibility
  • Critical Influences/
  • Script Doctor/
  • Personal & Reported Essays/
  • Interviews/
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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 12, 2025

My Letter to "The New Yorker" on Green-Wood Cemetery

August 12, 2025/ Michael Quinn
My Letter to "The New Yorker" on Green-Wood Cemetery

This week, The New Yorker published my letter to the editor about Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, a place I walk through weekly, finding new things to discover each time.

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