REViews oF Boy Erased
“Boy Erased” - Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
Michael Cart, “Review of Boy Erased” - Booklist
Meghan Daum, “‘Inside My Head I’m a Girl’: Three Ways of Growing Up Gay” - New York Times
Emily Donaldson, “Frank and Articulate Memoir of Loss and Liberation” - Toronto Star
Jamie Brickhouse, “‘Boy Erased’: A Minister’s Son Trapped Between Religion and His Sexual Identity” - The Washington Post
Jeffrey Condran, Review of Boy Erased - Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 48, no. 3 (print)
Chris Kelly, “Boy Erased: Book Review” - Hunter and Bligh
Jarry Lee, “18 Incredible New Books You Need to Read This Summer” - Buzzfeed
Amy Lewontin, “Review of Boy Erased” - Library Journal 141, no. 10 (starred review) (print)
Jim Piechota, “Holy Homophobia!” - Bay Area Reporter
Lara Rae, “Stories of Survival” - Winnipeg Free Press
Douglas Ray, “To Be Young, Christian, and Queer in the Fundamentalist South (With Apologies to Nina Simone)” - Kenyon Review
“Review of Boy Erased” - Kirkus Reviews
Cathy Ritchie, “Book Review: Boy Erased: a Memoir, by Garrard Conley” - Rainbow Round Table Book and Media Reviews
Steven Tagle, “Bad Education” - LA Review of Books
Kate Tuttle, “Saving Manuscripts; Growing Up Gay; Postal Service History” - Boston Globe
Ross Ufberg, “Survival Tales from the Ex-Gay Movement” - Pacific Standard
Tina Winstead, "Get Your Biography Fix at Huntington” - The Daily Star (print)
Interviews
2021
“Intersections of Faith and Identity Panel” - Calgary Pride
Steve Kraske, “Author of ‘Boy Erased’ Talks About Life After Conversion Therapy” - KCUR Up to Date
Giselle Reid, “THR Interview Series: Garrard Conley” - The Headlight Review
2020
“Face to Face: Conversion Therapy” - Logo TV
Karen Shainyan, “Garrard Conley, From Boy Erased to Fight with Conversion Therapy” - Karen Shainyan ENG
2019
“'Boy Erased' Author Garrard Conley On Surviving Conversion Therapy” - Newsweek
Stanislava Ivy, “Cinema Confidential/The Art of the Successful Book Adaptation” - Stanislava Ivy
Sean Lester, “Cinemark interviews Joel Edgerton and Garrard Conley of Boy Erased” - Cinemark
Jerome Ellison Murphy, “The Desire to Be: Talking with Garrard Conley and Taylor Larsen” - The Rumpus
Ixchel Rosal, “Community Citizenship Film Series: "Boy Erased" - Post Screening Q&A” - Columbia University Life
“Stonewall 50: Matthew Riemer, Leighton Brown, and Garrard Conley” - Twenty Summers
Daisy Woodward, “My Experience of Gay Conversion Therapy” - Another Man
2018
Ashley Allen, “Boy Erased Junket” - Black Hollywood Live
Erik Anderson, “Interview: Garrard Conley, author of ‘Boy Erased’” - Awards Watch
Helen Armstrong, “Interview with Garrard Conley” - Out Front Magazine
Christine Jeurling Birro, “‘Boy Erased’ Garrard Conley” - Pop Culture Confidential
“‘Boy Erased’ Author Garrard Conley on Conversion Therapy Horrors” - The Today Show
“Boy Erased Cast and Crew Q&A” - TIFF Talks
“'Boy Erased': Joel Edgerton & Garrard Conley On Portraying The Family In Conversion-Therapy Drama” - Access
“Boy Erased LA Premiere Garrard Conley” - Movie Roar
“‘Boy Erased’ Tells the True Story of Garrard Conley and Conversion Therapy” - Now This
David Canfield, “Erased from His Story” - Entertainment Weekly (11/2/2018) (print)
David Canfield, “How the gay-conversion therapy memoir Boy Erased Made It to the Big Screen” - Entertainment Weekly
DaniElle DeLaite, “Joel Edgerton & Garrard Conley Interview on Gay Conversion Therapy” - HeyUGuys
“How 'Boy Erased' Hopes Put an End to Gay Conversion Therapy” -toofab
“I Survived a Gay Conversion Therapy 'Cult'“ - PinkNews
Joel Edgerton, “About That One Time Russell Crowe Took a Private Jet to Author Garrard Conley’s Church” - Interview Magazine
“Joel Edgerton and Garrard Conley Talk 'Boy Erased'“ - The Knockturnal
Shanee Edwards, “ScreenwritingU interviews writer/director Joel Edgerton and author Garrard Conley on Boy Erased” - ScreenwritingU
“An Evening with Garrard and Martha Conley,” Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History
Matt Fagerholm, “Silence That Says So Much: Joel Edgerton and Garrard Conley on ‘Boy Erased’” - Roger Ebert
Focus Features, “A Boy’s Own Story: A Q&A With Garrard Conley” - Focus Features
Eli Glasner, “Boy Erased Author Garrard Conley on ‘Surviving’ Gay Conversion Therapy” - CBC News: The National
Tim Grierson, “Converstions with Joel Edgerton and Garrard Conley of Boy Erased” - SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Michelle Hart, “Boy Erased Author Garrard Conley Recounts the Trauma of Gay Conversion Therapy” - Oprah Daily
Aaron Hicklin, “I was 19, gay and ready to be ‘cured’ by conversion therapy” - The Guardian
Elena Hilton, “The Author of Boy Erased Hopes His Experience in Conversion Therapy Makes People Angry” - Esquire
Jazza John, “Surviving Gay Conversion Therapy with Garrard Conley (extended interview)” - Jazza John
Larry King, “Interview with Garrard Conley” - Larry King Now
Brian Latimer, “In Conversation with Garrard Conley” - NBC News
Chaim Levin, “Garrard Conley and Joel Edgerton Talk Boy Erased” - NewNextNow
Scott Lunsford and V.L. Cox, “Garrard Conley Interview” - Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History
Scott Lunsford and V.L. Cox, “Love Exists” - Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History
Vinnie Manusco, “‘Boy Erased’: Joel Edgerton and Garrard Conley on Having Empathy for Despicable Characters” - Collider
Michelle Martin, “‘Boy Erased’: The True Story Behind the Film” - All Things Considered, NPR
Melissa Matthews, “Garrard Conley Shares the Terrifying True Story of ‘Boy Erased’ and Gay Conversion Therapy” - Men’s Health
Joe McGovern, “Boy Erased Q&A with Memoir Author Garrard Conley” - Angelika Film Center & Cafe
Michael O’Sullivan, “Makers of Gay-Conversion Film Say They Don’t Want to ‘Throw God Under the Bus” - The Washington Post
Andrew Parker, “‘I’d Love to Say It Gets Easier’: A Talk with Boy Erased Author Garrard Conley” - The Gate
Steve Prokopy, “Interview: Joel Edgerton and Garrard Conley on Adapting and Casting Boy Erased to Reach the Biggest Audience Possible” - Third Coast Review
David Reddish, “‘Boy Erased Author Garrard Conley on Defeating the Ex-Gay Movement While ‘Not Hating’ Its Leaders” - Queerty
Ryan Roschke, “How Boy Erased Outsold Expectations and Became a Powerful Film, Against All Odds” - PopSugar
Kathryn Ryan, “Surviving Gay Conversion Therapy” - RNZ Nine to Noon
Sadye Scott-Hainchek, “‘Boy Erased’ Author Reflects on His Memoir as Film Comes Out” - The Fussy Librarian
Randy Shulman, “Unerasable: Garrard Conley and Joel Edgerton on ‘Boy Erased’” - Metro Weekly
Dominick Suzanne-Mayer, “Boy Erased’s Joel Edgerton and Garrard Conley on the Sad Legacy of Conversion Therapy” - Consequence
Anna Swartz, “‘Boy Erased’ Author Garrard Conley Talks Seeing His Conversion Therapy Memoir Turned into a Film” - Mic
"What Conversion Therapy Is Really Like” - Insider
Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, “I Was Told to ‘Pray the Gay Away’” - This Morning
Curtis M. Wong, “‘Boy Erased’ Author Garrard Conley: ‘I’m Saying the Stuff No One Wants to Say” - Huffington Post
2017
“Garrard Conley” - Beaks and Geeks
Rich Fahle, “Garrard Conley at 2017 AWP Book Fair” - PBS Book View Now
T. Cole Rachel, “Garrard Conley on How to Write About Your Real Life” - The Creative Independent
2016
Andrea Arnold, “Garrard Conley on ‘Ex Gay’ Therapy, the Church and His New Memoir, Boy Erased” - Electric Lit
Bryan Borland, “A Q&A with Garrard Conley, Author of ‘Boy Erased’” - Arkansas Times
Joe Donahue, “Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley” - WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Amy Gall, “The Opposite of Labels: Garrard Conley” - Barnes & Noble Review
Petia Ivanova, “Garrard Conley: Literature Saved Me” - American College of Sofia
Andrew Parker, “‘I’d Love to Say It Gets Easier’: A Talk with Boy Erased Author Garrard Conley” - The Gate
Lauren Prastien, “‘Boy Erased’: An Interview with Garrard Conley” - Michigan Quarterly Review
Matthias Roberts, “A Conversation with Garrard Conley” - Matthias Roberts
Deirdre Sugiuchi, “The Rumpus Interview with Garrard Conley” - The Rumpus
Todd Summar, “Interview: Garrard Conley, Ex-Gay Therapy from the Inside” - Queen Mob’s Teahouse
Todd Summar, “Garrard Conley: On Surviving Ex-Gay Therapy, Writing His Memoir, and the Year in Queer Lit” - Lambda Literary
Profiles, etc.
“Best Summer Beach Reads” - Travel + Leisure
Johnny Dodd, Mary Green, and Caitlin Keating, “The Real Story Behind Boy Erased: They Tried to Make Me Straight” - People (Nov. 18, 2018) (Print)
Angelica Florio, “The ‘Boy Erased Subject Is Exposing Conversion Therapy in a Brand New Way” - Bustle
MJ Franklin, “16 Incredible Quotes from 16 Incredible Books That Got Us Through 2016" - Mashable
Mary Green, “Gay Conversion Therapy Made Me Suicidal: The Powerful True Story Behind the Film Boy Erased” - People
Ryan Leach, “‘Erased’ No More” - OutSmart Magazine
Ben Steelman, “On Cape Fear, A Whole Lot of Scribbling: Local Authors Publish Plenty in 2016” - StarNews