Bookshelf

The Man in the Gray
Flannel Skirt
Before Jon-Jon Goulian was
a  “cross-dressing literary
hipster,” as Rolling Stone put it,
he was an awkward, frightened kid with some serious insecurities, thanks to his
high-achieving family members. Goulian opens up about it with his first book, The
Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt (Random
House, $25), an honest, funny, look at how the little moments in childhood
influence how interesting we can become as adults.  — Michelle Garcia