![]() ![]() Dislikes: semicolons, bookmarking Tweets. Likes: fall, UK book jackets, fountain pens, paperwork movies (contains books, writing, files, etc.), radicchio, Scandi design. Growing up on a rural farm, he learned to fix tractors and taught himself to read with his nurse practitioner aunt’s nursing home manuals and the Bible as the only reading materials available writes a newsletter called Sweater Weather, and counts photography and tennis as hobbies. ![]() He’s also working on the screenplay of Real Life, about a gay Black chemistry student on a Midwestern campus, which is being adapted to the screen by Kid Cudi. An acquiring editor at Unnamed Press, he is currently a Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library at work on his next novel, Group Show, about five art museum assistants in Madison. The Alabama-born and -raised, New York-based Taylor, who wanted to be a neurosurgeon, majored in chemistry at Auburn University and was a biochem doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before leaving for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. ![]() His 2021 short story collection Filthy Animals won the Story Prize, and now comes his second novel, The Late Americans (Riverhead), about a circle of creatives set in Iowa City. It took Brandon Taylor five weeks to write his 2020 debut novel, Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. ![]()
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