Like Taylor’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Real Life, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and is currently being adapted into a movie with Kid Cudi, Filthy Animals takes a queer Black graduate student in the Midwest as its central protagonist. Throughout Filthy Animals, Taylor fixes his gaze on similar moments of peril, probing the tension between vulnerability and deception, sexual desire and violence, with an elegant precision teetering on the gothic. “It was that perilous moment when you decide that you're going to turn on cam and you never know who's on the other side- if it's gonna be some old white man in a basement in Indiana pretending to be a teenager.” Behind him, a giant stack of boxes sits in a corner of his Iowa City apartment, which contains nearly four hundred recently signed copies of Filthy Animals, his short story collection published by Riverhead on June 22.
“This takes me back to the olden days of Yahoo chat rooms,” says Brandon Taylor, moments after his face appears on my screen. It’s one of the first questions in the age of the Zoom interview: camera on?
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