Paul Monette Archives

May 10, 2011 6 min read

From Precious to Richard Brown When the HIV pandemic began to garner national attention in the early 1980s, it was...

My First Queer Book? ‘Borrowed Time’

September 16, 2010 1 min read

My first gay book was Borrowed Time by Paul Monette, for better or worse. I say that because, at the...

June 17, 2010 4 min read

1. Adrienne Rich I can’t tell you how I knew what the ladder was for. But when I read “Diving...

April 8, 2010 2 min read

Sandburg, Stevenson, Ginsberg, Brutus, Herbert and company. My father was Carl Sandburg. My mother was Robert Louis Stevenson. I too...