From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell, and it's always a thrill to have a writer on, especially a writer who's had a big impact and influence on you when that writer quotes another writer.

And his book, Do Something, Coming of Age, amid the glitter and doom of 70s New York, Guy Trey-Bae quotes the great Tony K. Bamberra writing,

What are we pretending not to know today?

His entire life has been in response to that question

because he needs to know everything

and has an incredible, I think, appetite

for sensory stimulation that comes across in his writing.

Certainly, we've read it in his stuff in the times,

but I grew up reading his stuff in the voice.

He means the world to me,

and I'm thrilled to have Guy Trabay talking to me today about his book, Do Something. Guy, thanks so much

for being here. Thank you for having me. First of all, it's a blissful read. And it's also,

given that you've been, I guess, described it as a style writer, everybody you write about in the book

sort of has style, that sort of sense

of style being the way one deports oneself and presents oneself to the world.

The thing that was really interesting to me about depicting these characters, many of whom

are no more, is the degree to which self-invention was possible then in a pre-digital world. And the models that people were using

to conjure up these characters, you know, they were drawing from the movies, literature, all manner

of resources that would not be the same as having an algorithm-driven life. So the candy darlings of the

world are Jackie Curtis, all the Warhol people, the Warhol adjacent people that are in the book.

There was a wonderful, wonderful drag character called Silva Thin,

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