ArticlesSuzette Mayr
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FictionBlack queer joy and ‘deliberately hidden’ history brought to life in playful, poetic style
Suzette Mayr’s latest novel, The Sleeping Car Porter, began with a challenge posed by one of her former writing teachers, the poet Fred Wah – he suggested she write about train porters. “I didn’t know what he was talking about, and I didn’t know what history he was referring to,” she says.
