Saliby: I saw that you originally planned to make the story about three women instead of gay men. I just had to go ahead and do it.īut when I became an adult and realized that you can't, only a lucky few get to write full time, and you have to have some other kind of career to support yourself. I went into journalism, but then I always had that fiction bug sort of still biting at me. When I was a little kid, I used to write short stories and things like that, and I had big dreams of being a novelist. What made you decide to dip into fiction?įoley: It's something I've always wanted to do. Thank you for joining me.Īaron Foley: Thanks for having me. He’s written and edited two guidebooks about Detroit as well. Sophia Saliby: The new novel Boys Come First by Aaron Foley follows three gay Black men trying to navigate their thirties, hookups and career struggles amid a changing city of Detroit.įoley is also a Senior Editor with PBS NewsHour. What does it mean to walk through a life in Detroit? But I didn't want to like dwell on that though. And I wanted to do something where it's just like okay, this is a city that's gone through a lot, yes. People still have lives, love, romance, career ambitions, dreams, all of that. It's almost a genre where you cannot write about Detroit without writing about the destruction and the devastation and things like that.
