She wouldn’t borrow them, though: she was afraid it might incriminate her. So she crept into the stacks of the local library and read books on homosexuality. How did your parents react to the book?ĪM: My mother had known for several years I was gay. For middle class people, it can frighten, even terrify. RG: One learns so much about the crazy quality of living in San Francisco from Tales. At the time I wrote Tales of the City I was very much like Michael, but I think I’ve learned things in the interim. I alternate between that and enjoying my life of total freedom. RG: Like Michael Tolliver (a love-torn character in Tales), are you desperately looking for a lover to settle down with? Their phone calls usually begin, “This is extremely embarrassing for me, but, but, but …” And when I talk to them on the phone I often make friends. The people who liked it tend to be a lot like me. Putting together that serial for the Chronicle was such an extremely intimate experience. But Tales of the City was the first fiction that I had ever written. While working for them I was making things up and somehow they didn’t appreciate it. I was a journalist with the AP in San Francisco. AM: I did a weekly humor column for The Daily Tarheel at the University of North Carolina.
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