PETER GAJDICS is the winner of Opium magazine's 2009 500-word memoir contest, and has also been published in The Q Review, New York Tyrant, The Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide, Gay Times, The Printed Blog, and this--a literary webzine. His first book, CROSSING STYX, is about his six years in primal therapy trying to "change" his sexual orientation from gay to straight, and the subsequent medical malpractice suit he filed against his former psychiatrist for treating his homosexuality as a disease. Peter lives in Vancouver, Canada, and can be contacted at [email protected]
Drawing Out the Sting
When those who’ve wronged us do not take responsibility for the harm they’ve caused, how is it possible to release them, the hope for their contrition, from our lives?
A conversation with Steve Almond, author of the acclaimed new story collection God Bless America, now available from Lookout Books. Other People is a twice weekly author interview podcast hosted by TNB founder Brad Listi. For more information, please visit the show's official website. And be sure to subscribe for free at iTunes.