The Loony Bin Trip: A Conversation With Norah Vincent
A journalistic Houdini, Norah Vincent follows up her best-selling book Self Made Man with Voluntary Madness, an account of her days inside a mental institution.
January 03 2009 12:00 AM
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A journalistic Houdini, Norah Vincent follows up her best-selling book Self Made Man with Voluntary Madness, an account of her days inside a mental institution.
Slava Mogutin's new book of photography captures the exotic nightlife of New York City go-go boys.
Classical scholar and bestselling memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn explains why the time is right for his new translation of eminent gay poet C.P. Cavafy's collected works
Teresa Stores's third novel takes us back to the 1960s, where a young lesbian in Jacksonville, Fla., navigates religion, family, and politics.
Augusten Burroughs takes a long, cold look at his father in his new memoir A Wolf at the Table.
What better way to beckon second glances this summer than with a book that signals your profound sophistication? Then again, how about a work you can still make sense of while sipping cocktails at the pool? To spare you the homework of finding the best books for your mood, wallet, and barbecue chatter, we asked folks at four of the country's best lesbian and gay bookstores for their predictions about the summer's most-anticipated titles. This short list is the result, with thanks to Philip Rafshoon of Outwrite Books and Coffeehouse in Atlanta, Ed Hermance of Giovanni's Room in Philadelphia, Kim Brinster of New York City's Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, and Jason Galloway at San Francisco's A Different Light Bookstore.
In the life of fiction master John Cheever, biographer Blake Bailey finds a haunting tale of mid-century homosexual self-loathing.
Acclaimed lesbian author Stacey D'Erasmo's third novel, The Sky Below, charts her antihero's metamorphosis into a post-gay man.
One gay priest won the love and loyalty of New York City's fire department and, in the tragedy of September 11, became an icon.
Tales of the City's Armistead Maupin takes another trip down Barbary Lane.