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The suggestion that Williams’s “troubled life” might have consigned him to hell led some readers to wonder whether Kelly was referring to the playwright’s homosexuality.
Kelley later sought to clarify that by “troubled life” she was referring to Williams’s dysfunctional family situation, the inspiration for The Glass Menagerie. But the questions kept coming in on both Steppenwolf’s blog and the Reader‘s. Finally, on Friday 10/17, Lavey posted a statement on the Steppenwolf blog that says, in part: “I believe Steppenwolf erred in not clarifying the meaning of the statement with Nambi before we posted her blog. We should have been more sensitive to the possibility that Nambi would be misinterpreted and ought to have asked her to make her remarks more clear. . . . We regret any offense the blog caused our readers and I regret that Steppenwolf did not suitably protect our artist from misinterpretation.”
