The Bisexual’s Dilemma
The title Fire Shut Up in My Bones is taken from the book of Jeremiah, and the prophet’s next words are: “and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.”
MoreBlog Posts
Song of a Social Butterfly
Justin Martin, the author of Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians, is clearly a man of eclectic interests, having previously written biographies of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ralph Nader, and Alan Greenspan. He has now turned his attention to the biography of an entire group.
More
A Novel about Writing a Novel
Miranda’s Book by Alfred Corn Eyewear Publishing. 323 pages, $20. You’ve made a killing. Going with your lover to retrieve a portfolio of art, you somehow manage to…More
After Them, the Déluge
Mary McAuliffe’s Twilight of the Belle ÉpoqueT inevitably delights with its evocation of the glitterati of Paris from 1900 until the end of World War I.
More
A Married Man in the ’60s
Mark Merlis has written a deeply satisfying novel, one whose voices continue to echo in your head long after you’ve finished reading it.
More
LGBT History 101
Part One begins with an essay by John D’Emilio, one of the most distinguished scholars of LGBT history in America.
More
Does Marriage Matter?
One of the old saws directed against marriage has always been that it leads to the loss of a person’s identity. Another is that it perpetuates traditional patriarchal values that many find repugnant. But, …
More
The Truman Show
The great virtue of Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies is its comprehensiveness. Pugh, a medievalist who also writes on film, details the many cinematic and televised adaptations of Capote’s novels and short stories, several of which have been filmed two or three times.
More
Slipping Glimpse of the Narrative Eye
“A camera is like a typewriter, in the sense in which you can use the machine to write a love letter, a book, or a business memo,” the photographer Duane Michals said in a 2001 interview with Italian critic Enrica Viganò, which is reproduced in Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals.
More
Tune In, Drop Out
Radiomenby Eleanor LermanThe Permanent Press. 288 pages, $11.99 Eleanor Lerman’s first book of poetry, Armed Love, published when she was 21, was a finalist for the 1973 National Book…More