“The media has replaced every institution”—Fran Lebowitz is always right, isn’t she? Yet even I think she could not foretell...
“It is my hope that my work forces us to face our fears of HIV/AIDS. Life has brought me intimately...
Marco Roth grew up in a well-to-do Jewish family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, but, like all unhappy...
"He always felt like he was an alien and that people wouldn't accept him as he was. He created camouflage."
Writer and biographer Cynthia Carr discusses the public and private life of the iconic artist David Wojnarowicz along with the challenges of creating a cohesive history that blends the two. Read More
David Wojnarowicz's art has generated a lot of vital, intelligent discussion over the last thirty years, but his life has always been a bit of a mystery, which is why Fire in the Belly is so important. Read More
[....]Any literature that cares to address the queer desire to marry among gay men and women will have a lot on its shoulders, maybe even more than literature about AIDS ever did. Read More
This month Bloomsbury USA is releasing the first full length–and much buzzed about– biography of queer downtown artist, activist, and provocateur David Wojnarowicz. Wojnarowicz, who...
There are plenty of ghosts in New York City. And this PRIDE, we take a measure of what poets are...
Schulman is brilliant at conveying how devastating and surreal it was to live during the AIDS crisis, and in examining its impact on the living, she draws connections between the gentrification of cities like New York and the coincidental timing of the AIDS crisis... Read More
Back before I was ill myself, back when I was a writer who traveled to the story, rather than needing stories to come to me, I spent a decade covering writers who were dying.
It wasn’t a plan–I was a young reporter and I got assigned a beat that no one thought would be big in the 80s: AIDS. Read More
