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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal, and we're off this week, and we're using it to highlight our interviews with some of the most fascinating creative people working out of the Bay Area.

Today, Carvel Wallace, the Oakland-based writer who's cut a unique path through the writing world with essays that always

seem to find the profound. In his memoir, another word for love, Wallace probes his own past,

his blackness, his queerness, and his masculinity, always in relation to the world, engaged with it,

and with the people who make it have meaning. There's a wisdom in here that's rare and hard one.

As one friend of Wallace has joked, it's like bell hooks for boys.

He joins us to talk about his life and work right after this news.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. There are a lot of ways to approach Carvel Wallace's brilliant, unsettling new memoir, another word for love. You could focus on the precarity of his early childhood, a homelessness that was both literal and figurative. You could look at the elements of reckoning with masculinity,

the way he delineates all the things we have to unlearn on our way to something better.

But the moments I loved best were Wallace in the natural world, a fierce and attentive

observer of the Milky Way, the daffodils, the Robin. It's there, I think, that we can glimpse where Wallace has

arrived after his journey through the fog of growing himself up and the tundra of unlearning

the lessons he absorbed about being a man. In these meditative passages, there is a mind,

a human, a self, working to be nothing more or less than himself. Welcome back to

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