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    Robert Stinner

    he/him | Writer | Washington, DC, United States

    Robert Stinner is a Washington, D.C.-based writer of fiction, essays, and criticism. Publications include fiction in River Styx and Muleskinner Journal, essays in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, LitHub, and Bright Wall/Dark Room, and film reviews in In Review Online.

    Selected work
    • Fiction

      2

    • Nonfiction

      14

    Cover of River Styx Magazine

    Death and the Bachelor

    River Styx Magazine, 2025

    Fiction
    Short Story
    Historical
    Cover of The Muleskinner Journal

    The Fox's Visit

    The Muleskinner Journal, 2024

    Fiction
    Short Story
    LGBTQ+
    Cover of The Rumpus

    “A Path to Happiness”: Commemorating Sex in Patrick Nathan’s The Future Was Color

    The Rumpus, 2024

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Electric Literature

    Oliver Quick Is Determined To Get Rich Or Die Trying

    Electric Literature , 2024

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Electric Literature

    Queer People Still Struggle To Find Support, Meaning, and Connection

    Electric Literature , 2024

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Bright Wall/Dark Room

    Eat it With a Spoon: On Mitchell Leisen's 'Easy Living' & 'Midnight'

    Bright Wall/Dark Room, 2023

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Electric Literature

    Queer Villains are Vital to Understanding Queer History

    Electric Literature , 2023

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Bright Wall/Dark Room

    The Hours’s Queer Chronologies

    Bright Wall/Dark Room, 2022

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Bright Wall/Dark Room

    The Hours and Times (1991): Almost a Love Affair

    Bright Wall/Dark Room, 2022

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of LitHub

    How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth

    LitHub, 2022

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Crime Reads

    Queer Criminality in Swoon and The Living End

    Crime Reads, 2022

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Animus

    Queer Subversion in Art and Life

    Animus, 2022

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Animus

    Todd Haynes’ Pop Idols

    Animus, 2021

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of MAYDAY

    Transgressive Divadom in Hedwig and the Angry Inch  by Robert Stinner : MAYDAY,Transgressive Divadom in <i>Hedwig and the Angry Inch</i> <br> by Robert Stinner - MAYDAY

    MAYDAY, 2021

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Crooked Marquee

    The Musical Moments of Postcards from the Edge — Crooked Marquee

    Crooked Marquee, 2021

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism
    Cover of Bright Wall/Dark Room

    We Shall Have the World: Queer Utopian Desire in 'Evening Primrose'

    Bright Wall/Dark Room, 2021

    Nonfiction
    Essay
    Cultural Criticism