I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.
Kevin SessumsThat's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.
Kevin SessumsDavid Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.
Kevin SessumsI get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at Columbia who were going into writing and filmmaking and everything, I said, "When I tried to think of what to say, the only subject I thought was appropriate for people doing what you're going to do is rejection." That's what it's all about.
Kevin Sessums