How to Write a Novel About a Gay Writer

The book is about a gay writer on the cusp of 50. He said he couldn't find himself to care about the guy and basically decide like, what if I made him fun instead? In an interview in 2022 talking about why he wrote a sequel, he recognizes it's weird to write a sequel to a Pulitzer prize winning novel. "I wanted to write about America and it was a good way to do it"