![]() ![]() ![]() And it’s just as important to have characters with intersectional identities.Īlter is struggling with his queerness and holding on to his Jewishness in a new world - can you talk more about writing a gay Jewish protagonist in the early 1890s? But seeing the rise in antisemitism made me realize how important it is to have Jewish characters in genre fiction, in books that aren’t about the Holocaust. ![]() Before starting “The City Beautiful,” I was afraid of writing a Jewish protagonist, particularly a queer Jewish one, because I feared that publishers would consider the book too niche. I would say that they had a profound impact on my decision to write this story. In your author’s note, you write about modern antisemitism you’ve encountered - how did the events of the recent years impact your story? Holmes and create my own killer whose motives are still very much rooted in that time and place. At first, I thought about writing a mystery about an immigrant who arrives in Chicago in search of his missing sister, but then I decided not to write about H.H. I found it intriguing that his killings were performed against the backdrop of the World’s Fair, which was supposed to cast America (and Chicago) in the best light. Holmes, a serial killer active in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair. The idea was sparked by an article I read about H.H. What inspired you to write “The City Beautiful” ? Aden Polydoros by Melanie Elise Photography ![]()
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