HE Playlist Song Five: The Inspiration for HE
I’ve written before about my writing being “found art;” that is composed of things I’ve seen, conversations I’ve overheard, people I’ve met, and dwelling in the general milieu of ‘gay chaos.” This is true of my latest novel, “He,” as well but HE is also heavily influenced by music. Kitt has a cat named Frankenstein: “…Taking her place, a ragged black cat with an angry-looking scar on his forehead hissed at us. “Frankenstein, come,” Kitt barked without turning around. The cat cast us a baleful glance then stalked away behind Kitt on its silent cat feet.” The cat wasn’t originally part of the story; he came into being after I heard Sam Cooke’s “Another Saturday Night,” on the radio while I was writing HE. Another fella told me he had a sister who looked just fine Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance To a cat named Frankenstein In an earlier post , I wrote about how Whitney Houston’s “My Love is Your Love” a line of which chorus refers to the historic...