Published in: January-February 2010 issue.
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
by S. Bear Bergman
Arsenal Pulp Press. 192 pages, $18.95
THIRTY-SOMETHING S. Bear Bergman has already lived several lives and is leaving a trail of documents for us fortunate readers to decipher. A performance artist, memoirist, educator, and more, Bergman’s elegantly written collection of essays chronicles life as a gender non-conformist—on the “transmasculine spectrum”—with a laugh-out-loud sense of humor.