Bio/Memoir Archives

May 24, 2017 9 min read

"My early readers told me I needed to focus. Yes, I wanted to write my story, but what was the story? Was there a story?" Read More

‘Not One Day’ by Anne Garréta

Liz von Klemperer

Bio/Memoir

May 23, 2017 3 min read

Not One Day is a heady exploration and interrogation of Garréta's past romantic encounters Read More

‘The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir’ by Peter Gajdics

Steve Susoyev

Nonfiction

April 25, 2017 9 min read

The term “homosexual reparative therapy” conjures, for many of us, images of wrathful, bible-thumping parents dragging a 16-year-old into a...

Meredith Maran on Her New Memoir and the Definition of Happiness

Sara Rauch

Interviews

April 22, 2017 8 min read

"I find that the way I define and feel happiness keeps changing. Going through the worst time of my life definitely lowered the bar, which is actually a good thing." Read More

‘Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me’ by Bill Hayes

Steve Susoyev

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 14, 2017 13 min read

Bill Hayes has managed to tell his own moving story and to include Oliver Sacks, his partner of seven years, as a very active character but not the exclusive focus Read More

‘Abandon Me’ by Melissa Febos

Sara Rauch

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 5, 2017 3 min read

Abandon Me is a fierce exploration of love and obsession Read More

‘One of These Things First’ by Steven Gaines

Walter Holland

Bio/Memoir Reviews

December 29, 2016 5 min read

Steven Gaines’ poignant memoir of a gay boy growing up in New York City fits in the tradition of Philip Roth whose celebrated novels took on Jewish angst and sexual conflict in the Cold War age Read More

‘When We Rise: My Life in the Movement’ by Cleve Jones

Walter Holland

Bio/Memoir Reviews

December 13, 2016 4 min read

Cleve Jones’ memoir straddles both the demands of an intimate personal portrait of a gay man at the end of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century, and an in-depth historical record of the LGBT movement in America Read More