Don't miss the first half of our interview with Casey McQuiston, about the two-year anniversary of her first novel Red, White & Royal Blue.There's a chapter in the second half of Casey McQuiston's latest book One Last Stop, in which the young bisexual heroine August Landry and her friends go to a Christmas-in-July themed drag show at an underground bar in New York — a parallel universe New York where COVID-19 never happened and the city never shut down.Looking out at the crowd, August sees "butches, femmes, six-foot beefcakes… Women with Adam's apples, men without them.
People who don't fit into any category but look as happy and wanted here as anyone else, bobbing their heads to the house music and gripping drinks with painted nails.