Why ‘Tales of the City’ Helped to Open Screen Doors for Queer Stories

The acclaimed American novelist Robert Coover, who recently passed away, once explained why he skipped out on reading perhaps more high-brow fiction in favor of “sci-fi, detective novels, Westerns, pornography, spy stories, horror and romance,” likening them to “folk and fairy tales” because he found them “so much more alluring to a writer trying to […]