A dual biography, the book profiles Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill, both gifted, successful, HIV+ gay men who came of age in the Reagan years and with the onset of AIDS in America. Read More
In Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, Alysia Abbott shares her story of growing up as the daughter of writer and editor Steve Abbott, a leading gay cultural critic and important voice in the New Narrative movement.
Abbott sat down with Lambda Literary to talk about her father, the impact of HIV/AIDS on her life, and the experience of crafting her memoir. Read More
The first line of Urvashi Vaid’s new book Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (Magnus...
"You have to decide how honest you want to be in your writing: if you want to leave it in your diary or put it in a book. Yes, the experiences are intense but you have to allow yourself to go there, to cross that line."
At the heart of Joe Brainard’s I Remember is a counter-intuitive nostalgia for unbelonging. In his long form poem-cum-memoir, Brainard shares glimpses of his childhood and early adulthood that evoke lusty contradictions—the pleasure, pain, and curiosity of growing up different in America. It is a tribute to the self that survived, and the selves lost along the way.
In the same way Shane Allison’s own version of I Remember, published in 2012 by Future Tense Books, also evokes a sense of wonder, frustration, joy and sadness. Read More
A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds, the newest work from prolific author Martin Duberman, may read as an informative and dishy history; a You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again for the Left Forum set. For others, the book is a handsome lecture filled with insights into poignant moments and influential people... Read More
