A Scot on the Rocks
Not My Father’s Son: A Memoirby Alan CummingHarperCollins. 394 pages, $26.99 WHEN WE FIRST meet Blanche Dubois, she’s enveloped by a fog that we soon come to realize represents…More
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Identities in Play
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoirby Daisy HernándezBeacon Press. 185 pages, $24.95 I TEACH a course in multicultural studies to graduate students in counseling, and I’m…More
A ‘Real’ Marriage, After All
IN HER LIFE, Liza Monroy confides in The Marriage Act, there have been three important men: her father, her boyfriend Julian, and her best friend Emir.
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Being There in the Age of AIDS
Strub covers a lot of highly personal ground in Body Counts. Gay men his age lost staggering numbers of friends, on a scale otherwise known only to wartime soldiers. It was the kind of loss that soldiers famously find hard to discuss; maybe this is a reason that relatively few AIDS memoirs have been published so far.
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Clan on the Run
WHILE family memoirs are often drenched in anguish, Kamal Al-Solaylee’s Intolerable takes the genre to a new level. The Toronto-based journalist and university professor reaches back to his parents’ history, from Yemen in the ’60s through Beirut, Cairo, and back to Yemen up to the Arab Spring, in agonizing, heart-wrenching detail.
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I HAD a routine procedure a year ago in a famous New York hospital, a heart catheterization (when a wire is inserted up a vein into your heart to…More
Cruising and The Boys
The Friedkin Connection is a classic Hollywood autobiography, full of tough-talking, up-by-your-bootstraps salty chatter.
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Diary of a Gay Priest is one of the funniest and sanest memoirs I’ve ever read
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Exhaling in Verse
JUDY GRAHN was born in Chicago in 1940. This is just about the only ordinary thing that can be said about the self-identified working-class lesbian poet.
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