This Elegance - Derrick Austin Fiction 'I feel seen every time

'I feel seen every time I read [Catherine Newman's] words'

'I'd toast the moon and look at the sky

reconciling their past and present while maintaining the precarious balance of each of their worlds

he swears that he's not Danny anymore

This Elegance - Derrick Austin Fiction 'I feel seen every timeInterweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione ("sacred conversation"), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists, thinkers, and pop icons commune in a similar sacred dialogue Kathleen Collins, Andr Leon Talley, Richmond Barth, Lyle Ashton Harris, Juan de Pareja, Janelle Mone, Symone, and others appear as guiding spirits