This past summer two conservatives wrote radically anti-transgender pieces for the national media.
"I never thought my book would ever be published, and so I had the freedom to write as radically as I wanted".
I would regret it if I'd written less radically, or written less well, and neither of those two things has happened".
Sometime between 1525 and 1527, Vignali wrote a radically obscene satire on politics and sex that he called "La Cazzaria".
In a part of his manifesto titled "State and Terrorist Conspiracies," he wrote, "To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly, for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed".
So it is tempting to write about how radically life has changed for teenagers who struggle with their sexuality -- about how much easier it has become for them in school hallways and at home.
Thomas, a trans man, called the process of writing his book "radically vulnerable … and radically complicated, and insistently complicated".
Where the text of these New Selecteds is concerned, omissions are not accidents, as Marianne Moore wrote of her radically selective Collected Poems.
A "history of technology-in-use," he writes, yields "a radically different picture of technology, and indeed of invention and innovation".
It would have been impossible to predict that a decade or so later the author of these lines would be writing in so radically different – and, for many, so impenetrable – a style.
Now, in the third age of Grub Street – all-tweeting, all-Skyping – the delivery process of the written word is radically different from before, but the anxieties surrounding it are the same, and its beginnings – the placing of black on white – are curiously immutable.
