Bruce D Bromley

Author of _Guesting_ (2022), _The Life in the Sky Comes Down_ (2017), and _Making Figures_ (2014). Clinical Professor of writing at New York University.

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

"The Fire House": in a nation and world where Pride is endangered, where we are endangered:
"That's when Keith Haring appears to ascend from the floor, as if alive." https://t.co/ZO2Lln3P51

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

“I won’t be proportioned,” Mimi insists, “as though I were a lamb chop punitively over-trimmed": from "When Small Things Loom (1)," https://t.co/XaENP9hNE7

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

https://t.co/S6EAyi5n0Q

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

"America teaches its gay citizens about submission, to be silent or die, though the one will forever be the sibling of the other."
https://t.co/S6EAyi5n0Q

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

From "Stay," first published in _Anti-Heroin Chic_:
We know that this yearning to go back bewitches all who submit to it, that the past was never so uniform as its manufactured picture.
https://t.co/asP6Uw2vi5

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

My essay, "We Won't Need Saving," just published in the superb _Rawhead_! Link: https://t.co/V6AXUHBI1P

It took me over a year to find a home for this essay. The responses: This is a beautifully written essay, but it's too political for us.

I kept on trying.

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

My new essay, "Stay," just published in _Anti-Heroin Chic_! Link: https://t.co/vIcjwnMmE7

"I know that the affirmation of visibility
converts you into a sort of footed fire."

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

My new substack: https://t.co/FEXK3s4x8L
"A blurted out cry, a kiss, they slip alongside you if you wait on what foretells them, the dart of something acidic on your tongue, mutating into sugar as it travels the passageway of your throat."

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

"Heart Hurt," my new substack, link: https://t.co/47ytVTujEA
"A first person pronoun in the midst of vanishing, how does it speak?"

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

About reading palms with Beatrice Straight. About Christopher Walken chewing gum on stage while performing as that betroubled Theban king. And about what it can feel like, when the rain comes. Link:
https://t.co/P8U7tFtMfn

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

"What Betsy Was": about working for Edward Albee and with Betsy von Furstenberg and:

"This is what love calls on us to do, shatter windows, splinter doors, and we answer it with a hunger that knows no end."

Link: https://t.co/sarjUltzJb

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

"Bett, Talking," my new substack:

After college, everyone I knew stood in a carton that contained their lives, busy with one job, one man, one dog, each of them lasting until they stopped.

Link: https://t.co/MbStmDyrm1

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

My new substack and the end of my essay, "The Storied Cry"! Link: https://t.co/otmA7749zA

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

My new substack, "The Storied Cry (3): thinking the cry"! Link: https://t.co/jPLC7jAf8J

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

My new substack, "The Storied Cry (2)"! Link: https://t.co/DIMHAmfpPN

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

My new substack--about when the cry comes first. Link: https://t.co/uehkVoVkuD

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

From "When the Fugitives Decide to Stay," my new substack:

In terms of "idea "and its double meaning in the Greek, of phantom and form, our ancestral speakers must have been enfolded in a longing to stay the wobble in the word.
Link: https://t.co/7xSqW8gN5m...

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

From my new substack! Link: https://t.co/sjd5wE3KwH

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

My new substack--about working with and for George Whitman at Shakespeare and Company, Paris, and about learning how the past has legs.

[Bruce D Bromley @Bdb2D]

My new substack! https://t.co/7qRnQYq8DL