Real Life Brandon Taylor at Life

Real Life Brandon Taylor. His short stories and essays have been published in many outlets and have received critical acclaim. He writes so powerfully about so many things—the perils of graduate education, blackness in a predominantly white setting, loneliness, desire, trauma, need.

Wallace’s father died several weeks ago, but more pressingly so did the collection of nematodes he has been diligently studying all summer in an unnamed university. His debut novel, real life, came out in 2020 and was shortlisted for the booker. The intimate prose of brandon taylor's exquisite debut novel, real life, offers exactly that kind of writing.

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We follow wallace, a gay, black biochemistry postgraduate student, who reacts to suffering by continually. On the surface, brandon taylor’s debut novel, “real life”, is the story of a gay black biochemistry student named wallace from a small town in alabama studying in an unnamed, predominantly white midwestern university. Taylor’s writing revolves around and around the term “real life,” creating a current that worries its meaning throughout the novel. Real life by brandon taylor.