That’s where I first met Brent, and recently I invited him to answer some questions about his writing career, the Geography Club movie, and what’s next for him. He’s also a screenwriter and former entertainment reporter at AfterElton, which was AfterEllen’s brother site focusing on gay and bisexual men in entertainment. Since writing Geography Club, Brent went on to write three sequels in the Russel Middlebrook series including most recently The Elephant of Surprise, as well as several other YA books. Geography Club was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, an ALA Popular Paperback, and a Booklist Top Ten Best First YA Novel among many other accolades, and it was recently adapted into a feature film that will be released November 15. Brent Hartinger’s first novel, Geography Club, told the story of teen Russel Middlebrook, who forms a gay-straight alliance at his high school - except the club’s name, in order to avoid drawing undue attention, is the Geography Club.
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