"A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades."

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Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men - friends - in the beginning of the book. So much of their experience was ABOUT trying to find friends in the authors/artists I wrote about - subjects that were/are a source of comfort, somehow, since none of them "fit," either

— Hilton Als