Published in: September-October 2024 issue.
THOM GUNN
A Cool Queer Life
by Michael Nott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
720 pages, $40.
Michael Nott’s Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life provides illustrative backstories and perceptive insights into Gunn’s life and work. Nott was a coeditor of The Letters of Thom Gunn (2022) and draws upon that research, along with interviews as well as the artist’s notebooks and diaries, to produce the new biography.
John R. Killacky is the author of Because Art: Commentary, Critique, & Conversation.