Sex and salvation: best-selling author E. Lynn Harris takes on boy bands, antigay politics, and African-American megachurches in his new novel.(BOOKS)(Interview)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 23-MAY-06

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In the midst of his own success story, E. Lynn Harris was exhausted. The author of a series of juicy best-selling novels that chronicle the lives of gay and bisexual black men, Harris had really opened a vein when he wrote his 2003 memoir, What Becomes of the Brokenhearted. To recharge, he headed back to college--namely, his alma mater, the University of Arkansas--and taught creative writing and fiction.

"I absolutely loved it," says Harris, 50. "I always wanted to be a teacher, but it was considered a sissy...

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