Richard Scott Larson

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Richard Scott Larson is a queer writer and critic. His debut memoir, The Long Hallway, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He has received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his creative and critical work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, Harvard Review, Electric Literature, and many other journals and anthologies. He lives in Brooklyn.

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The Long Hallway

4.77 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions
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Richard Larson and 6 other people liked Carm's review of The Long Hallway:
The Long Hallway by Richard Scott Larson
"You don’t realize how much Michael Myers and a closeted, midwestern kid have in common before you read “The Long Hallway”. Voyeurism. Violence. Repressed desire. Sexual frustration. Self loathing. And of course, a mask. “The Long Hallway” traverses t" Read more of this review »
The Long Hallway by Richard Scott Larson
"“The last time I ever saw my father alive, he wanted to talk to me about girls. I was twelve years old and my father, thirty-six, younger even than I am now.”

Christ on a bike, whatta harrowing read (complimentary).

I am being glib but I’m genuinely s" Read more of this review »
The Long Hallway by Richard Scott Larson
Richard Larson and 1 other person liked Jackie's review of The Long Hallway:
The Long Hallway by Richard Scott Larson
"Gorgeous, unflinching, honest- the world laid bare. A coming of age about identity and grief and horror films told by a true artist and observer of human nature. What we fear is not always extrinsic — the bogeyman with a knife— but buried deep within" Read more of this review »
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