Paul Sullivan
Paul Sullivan is a writer and editor based in Provincetown, MA. They graduated from Harvard University in 2023, worked as an associate editor at The Provincetown Independent where they ran the Arts & Minds pages, and are a recipient of a 2024-2025 Harvardwood Artist Launch Fellowship.
Select Works
“The Compromised Power of Being Young and Beautiful” (2024)
On the attention-seeking narrator of Thomas Grattan’s “In Tongues
“Paintings Tell a Kaleidoscopic Civil War Story” (2024)
On the haunting panels of William Ciccarriello’s “Lower 48”
“Dina Martina Is In A Good Place” (2024)
On the drag queen’s delightful absurdity
“Judith Butler Would Like Us to Love Without Fear” (2024)
On the mixed success of the philosopher’s latest book, Who’s Afraid of Gender?
“The Shameless Plan for a New Fire Island” (2024)
On the worst thing you’ve ever heard of
“‘The Curse’ Tells Unnerving Truths”(2024)
On a damn good television show and “woke gentrification”
“Ta-Ta For Now to All That” (2022)
On being young in Provincetown
“Cookie Mueller’s Carefree Misadventures, Carefully Told” (2022)
On a peerless (and forgotten) writer’s wild way of living
“Group Therapy With Varla Jean Merman” (2022)
On an aging beauty
“Peter Hujar Reveals the Truth Behind the Joke” (2022)
On what Susan Sontag got wrong about camp
THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT THE HARVARD CRIMSON“This Pride Month Postmates Wants You to Eat With Shame” (2022)
On the body fascist horrors of “the bottom-friendly menu”
“The Radical Empathy of Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’” (2020)
On the pop star’s best album
“Purple Babies: Notes to Keith Haring” (2020)
On commercial art and the AIDS epidemic
“The Generic Glory of Gay Instagram” (2020)
On Ian Spear, Rex Woodbury, and the rest of the Instagays
