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Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor is the author of the novel Real Life, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Buzzfeed Reader, O: The Oprah Magazine, Gay Mag, The New Yorker online, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. He is a staff writer at Lit Hub. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow.


Going Quiet as the World Goes Loud: On Private Anxiety in a Very Public Pandemic

"In the back of the ambulance, I thought about dying. I thought about
the people who go in and don’t come out."
June 18, 2020  By Brandon Taylor
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Brandon Taylor, Reluctant Novelist

When a Short Story Writer Goes Long
February 18, 2020  By Brandon Taylor
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Josephine Rowe on Craft, Climate Grief, and the Politics of Fiction

The Author of Here Until August in Conversation with Brandon Taylor
October 8, 2019  By Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor: Fear is a Prolonged Argument with the World

On What it is to Grow Up a Child, Afraid
September 13, 2019  By Brandon Taylor
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Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

On Alice Munro, Karl-Ove Knausgaard, and the Impulses of the MFA
May 22, 2019  By Brandon Taylor
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How Mary Oliver Helped Me to Breathe Again

Brandon Taylor on the Gift That is "Wild Geese"
January 18, 2019  By Brandon Taylor
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Kiese Laymon: Surviving the Failures of Others

The Author of Heavy in Conversation with Brandon Taylor
November 27, 2018  By Brandon Taylor
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All About My Mother: Brandon Taylor on Love, Rage, and Family

"My family was a series of hushed rages behind shut doors."
August 1, 2018  By Brandon Taylor
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On Writing a Short Story: ‘Everything is Always Happening, All the Time.’

Jamel Brinkley Talks to Brandon Taylor About His New Collection,
A Lucky Man
July 11, 2018  By Brandon Taylor
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I Reject Your Asterisks, and Your Dinkus, Too

Brandon Taylor is Not Having It
June 21, 2018  By Brandon Taylor
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Stephen Hawking: Astrophysicist, Rock Star

Brandon Taylor on the Importance of Science Heroes
March 15, 2018  By Brandon Taylor
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After Alabama: Political Victories Don’t Put Food on the Table

Brandon Taylor on the Fate of Black Voters Who 'Saved' Us From Roy Moore
December 13, 2017  By Brandon Taylor
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Against the Attention Economy: Short Stories Are Not Quick Literary Fixes

Brandon Taylor, in Praise of Slow Reading
December 6, 2017  By Brandon Taylor
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The Miracles of Serena Williams: Black Sainthood Will Not Fix White America

Brandon Taylor on the Greatest Tennis Player Who Ever Lived
September 6, 2017  By Brandon Taylor
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Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Brandon Taylor on the Uncertain State of Queer Narratives
July 11, 2017  By Brandon Taylor
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Being Gay vs. Being Southern: A False Choice

Brandon Taylor on Garrard Conley, Nick White, and Finding One's Real Self
June 6, 2017  By Brandon Taylor
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How Stevie Nicks and Elizabeth Bishop Helped Me Through Grief and Loss

Brandon Taylor on How to Survive a Disaster
April 5, 2017  By Brandon Taylor
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A Book Doesn’t Have to Be Long to Win an Award

Why We Don't Need to Make the National Book Awards 'Great' Again
November 8, 2016  By Brandon Taylor
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There is No Secret to Writing About People Who Do Not Look Like You

Brandon Taylor on the Importance of Empathy As Craft
August 25, 2016  By Brandon Taylor
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