Staying Out Late
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VIRGINIA’S APPLE:  Collected Memoirs
by Judith Barrington
Oregon State University Press. 234 pages, $24.95

            Although these memoirs were written over six decades, they read as a seamless recollection of an age and speak to the dread, the joy, and the angst of coming out at a time when doing so could be life-threatening. In our own troubling times, her reflections become all the more germane, reminding us of the courage it once took for people to discover the truth about themselves, and to let the world know about it. _______________________________________________________
Bruce Spang is a poet and writer living in Chandler, NC.