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"Poem Was Whitman's Word for a Man's Cock," Tom Crewe Discusses His Novel "The New Life" (John Addington Symonds) -Part 1
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Tom Crewe enters the ITBR and pulls back the curtain on his first novel, "The New Life." Since 2015, Tom has been an editor at the London Review of Books and has a PhD in 19th-century British history from the University of Cambridge. Tom explains what it was about John Addington Symonds' life that fascinated him and why he decided to fictionalize Symonds, Walt Whitman, Henry Havelock Ellis, and even Oscar Wilde. Why is Victorian sexuality and its language such a timely topic…
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