Is gregory maguire gay

Pious and lapsed.) If I can’t even know myself very well, how possibly can I claim to know you? I don't think there's anything wrong with celebrating the deep connection that the both have them have. For one thing, I claimed faith for Oz—faith abroad in Oz. Not magical faith, as in Narnia, not a faith of miracles and interventions, but human faith, practiced and often abused.

Of course I did. But because I grew up in a household that relished writing and reading, and funny storytelling at dinner, a household whose only real perq was an abundance of library cards among nine of us, I read in order to survive. I think she loves love. I saw Aslan’s forgiveness toward the sinner, Edmond, I wept over how Meg Murray, in A Wrinkle in Time,was able to save her baby brother through the power of love (with lots of Christian symbolism to remind her what she was up to).

And I took my cues about how journal-keeping could build the heart and mind of a writer from Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy.

In the end, the real challenge is to accept the mystery of unknowing, and to refuse our instinct to compartmentalize, to divide the world between us and them, good and bad, me and you. It gives us a tentative and temporary handhold. Ill.

I suppressed the rising sense of horror as long as I could. In the words of the title of philosopher Alan Watts’ book, The Wisdom of Insecurity–—another literary work that served to keep me functional when I was starting college.

So, you know, whether it’s romantic or platonic — Glinda might be a little in the closet — but if there were a time, you never know. I taught myself to be honest, and to honor honesty, even if it felt cruel to speak some thoughts aloud (to the secret page).

And so my being a Roman Catholic and my being gay, a seemingly intractable pair of characteristics, were joined by a third identity: that of being a writer.

Which brings us, through Narnia and through love, to my living in England when I turned 39, and beginning to feel my time had come.

(No one ever counts on being older than their mother.) Starting out as a children’s writer, I felt I had to be old enough to write a grownup novel now. With his tea and his cardigan, I’m just throwing it out there!”

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The Wicked film adaptation also stars Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Jeff Goldblum as The Wizard, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Ethan Slater as Boq, and Marissa Bode as Nessarose. The first part was released on November 22, 2024, with Part Two hitting theaters on November 21, 2025.

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