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Ep: 146 Cary Alan Johnson discusses with Brad his premier novel, Desire Lines. The story of a black man coming of age in 1982 just as the AIDS crisis was on the rise.

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Cary Alan Johnson is an author, activist and Africanist raised in Brooklyn and currently living in Central Africa.\\xa0 He studied writing with Wesley Brown, Jane Copper Alexis DeVeaux, Randall Kenan, Louise Meriwether, and Susan Scarf-Merrell.\\xa0 He has a Bachelor\\u2019s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master\\u2019s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University\\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs.\\xa0 A long-time innovator in national and international queer politics and cultural activism, he was involved in several ground-breaking organizations, including the Blackheart Collective, Gay Men of African Descent, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Cary was a founding member of Other Countries, the Black gay arts collective that published 3 volumes of poetry, prose and visual art by Black gay men in the 80s and 90s.\\xa0 His short stories, poetry and essays have appeared in anthologies and literary journals including Agni, RFD, Joseph Beam\\u2019s Brother to Brother and E. Lynn Harris\\u2019 Freedom in this Village.\\xa0 A public health and HIV specialist with experience living and working in Guinea, Haiti, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe, Cary is currently the director for Population Services International in Burundi.\\xa0 Desire Lines (Querelle Press, 2022) is his debut novel.

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