Thankfully, a year on, the Alabama-born author is in much better (“stronger and more secure”) spirits. “The pandemic, and my mental health stuff, happened at the same time that a lifelong dream was coming true, was a bit surreal.” “I was in the lowest of the lows,” Taylor says today, with a hint of embarrassment. His second world was one of hospital ER visits, 911 calls and anxiety-induced tachycardia (during the pandemic, his heart rate would randomly start accelerating to over 100BPM). The book was also swiftly snapped up by Kid Cudi, who is currently working on its upcoming movie adaptation.Īt the same time, Taylor’s internal life was falling apart. Here, his debut novel Real Life – which tells the story of a queer Black student negotiating his identity in a majority white college – was released to rapturous acclaim and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The first, for many writers, would be considered a paradise: a land of accolades, glowing reviews and clamouring offers of film adaptations. Brandon Taylor spent much of 2020 between two worlds.
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