The queens talk with gay literary icon Edmund White about his new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir. (Miguel Murphy joins in the fun, too!)
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Miguel's SHORE DITCH is available from Barrow Street.
You can purchase Edmund White's new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir, at BookWoman here. Bookwoman was founded to increase access to queer and feminist literature in Texas nearly fifty years ago.
Read Colm Tóibín's essay, "On the Casual Brilliance of Edmund White"
Read a tribute to Gary Indiana in The Guardian here.
Need a quick definition refresher of auto fiction? Here you go!
Miguel mentions that composer Arnold Schoenberg's archive destroyed in LA fires, and you can read more about that here.
Here's a dishy roundup of Nabokov's insults of Dostoevsky
For a bit more about Larry Kramer's objections to The Farewell Symphony, read on.
Learn more about Richard Howard and his poetry here.
Edmund White and Michael Carroll talk about their relationship, and their experiences writing gay fiction here.
And here's the Interview Magazine article we mention in the episode, in which gay writers ask Edmund White a question: “Tall Blonde With a Big Dick”: 18 Men Ask Edmund White Some Sexy Questions"
Finally, check out the fabulous Garth Greenwell's website: https://www.garthgreenwell.com
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