» by Varian Krylov August 19th, 2008 at 3:29 pm » Comments (1)

I've been writing for a long while now. I wrote silly runaway adventure stories when I was six or seven, and started writing "poetry" around that age, too, and kept it ...more »

» by Varian Krylov July 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 pm » Comments (1)

I have this mantra: boys are pretty, too. Everywhere I turn, hour by hour, I see images of gorgeous women. Billboards hawking beer, perfume and engagement rings; fliers pasted on telephone ...more »

» by Varian Krylov July 10th, 2008 at 12:33 am » Comments (1)

I don't usually write incest. It's not that I have any big qualms about the genre, it's just that incest isn't one of the kinks I'm wired for—maybe because I'm a ...more »

» by Varian Krylov June 24th, 2008 at 5:15 pm » Comments (2)

The Illusionist. The Heartbreak Kid. The Band's Visit. Sideways. You, Me and Dupree. No Country for Old Men. What do they all have in common? Like oh so many works of ...more »

» by Varian Krylov June 18th, 2008 at 12:40 am » Comments (0)

In my novels, I work out problems. Usually via a lot of torrid sex, but still, the novels are investigations of problems, explorations of moral dilemmas, the ugly and twisted ...more »

» by Varian Krylov June 10th, 2008 at 3:19 pm » Comments (0)

Authors are all too aware that their fate rests with their readers: readers have the power to buoy us up to the best-seller lists or relegate us to the cold ...more »

» by Varian Krylov May 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pm » Comments (0)

John Cameron Mitchell, director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, has said in response to criticism of his more recent and sexually explicit film, Short Bus: “In the old days, when ...more »

» by Varian Krylov May 13th, 2008 at 5:35 pm » Comments (8)

As those who know me are all too aware, when I write, I tend to write a lot. I have yet to wrangle a novel in at under a hundred ...more »

» by Varian Krylov April 29th, 2008 at 8:13 pm » Comments (6)

I spend as much time as possible thinking and writing about sex. No, not dense, inscrutable critical theory texts on media representations of gender and the body--that was grad school. I write ...more »