Bram’s The Art of History, Unlocking the Past in Fiction & Nonfiction is a brisk and entertaining jog through 29 great books and how authors grappled with history in their writing Read More
The basic tenet of the artfully edited The American Isherwood by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman (University of Minnesota...
In Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) author Michael Mewshaw reveals an individual...
"After seven decades the only wisdom I’ve arrived at is that life is really hard and that I’ve had major advantages being born male, white, and American." Read More
"Very early, we deal with 'camouflage' in various ways, and that shapes a unique 'sensibility.' I uphold our differences and resent them being 'erased.'" Read More
"I'm also not big on motive. I write one sentence at a time, then the next, and allow my creative juices to flow, take the story where it goes. I never have an ending in mind. That happens as I write." Read More
"I'm not buying into 'we were all heroes' and 'we changed the world' and all that stuff. That's just too rah-rah and simplistic; we deserve a more nuanced understanding of those times and how it affected us, what motivated us then and what the outcomes are today." Read More
History should always trump nostalgia because “nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.” Whoever first said these words—baseball icon Yogi...
"I think more gay people need to acknowledge that we have had a different experience growing up and therefore our relationships are somewhat different and our general stance on the world is much more ironic and anti-authoritarian than the mainstream..."
Noted writer and historian Martin Duberman took some time to talk with Lambda Literary about the history of the LGBT movement and the future of radical politics. Read More
