Consequential Words: An Interview with ‘Speech Team’ Author Tim Murphy
thegavoice.comIf you have loved gay writer Tim Murphy’s books since his breathtaking 2016 breakthrough novel, “Christodora,” and its 2019 follow-up, “Correspondents,” then you will be happy to know that his fourth novel, “Speech Team” (Viking, 2023), is being released in August.
A powerful story about the consequences of words and a quest for restorative justice, “Speech Team” follows four high school classmates who reunite more than 20 years after graduation following the suicide of a fellow speech team member. “Speech Team” will be released in paperback August 6, 2024. Tim, if you don’t mind, I’d like to begin with the most obvious question: did you compete on a high school speech team? Oh my God, yes [laughs]!
It was everything to me — it was a portal into literature and politics and journalism and poetry and drama and oratory [performance] and so much more.
And it was a big collection of weirdo brainiacs, queers, and nerds who competed, both in our high school and other schools in Massachusetts and beyond.
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