Golden Boy Writer David Ebershoff blazes a trail on the postgay frontier The death knell for gay literature, which has been ringing persistently for quite some time, just grew louder with Edmund White’s recent essay predicting the genre’s extinction as gay fiction becomes more commonly read by general audiences. As if on cue, gay writer … Continue reading
Crazy for You Years after a turbulent childhood, writer Augusten Burroughs can finally laugh about it. You’d never guess by looking at him that Augusten Burroughs was abandoned by his parents as a child. Or that his guardian, a demented psychiatrist, routinely overmedicated him. Or that his foster brother raped him. Despite a childhood filled … Continue reading
