A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" . From the renowned novelist and critic, an exquisite collection of journal entries from the 1980s and '90s, tracking a young, gay author's literary coming-of-age in New York during the AIDS crisis"Illuminating, heartbreaking, hilarious, romantic, terrifying, thrilling, baffling, joyous-such is life! And such are the diaries of our great writer Thomas Mallon.
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" . From the renowned novelist and critic, an exquisite collection of journal entries from the 1980s and '90s, tracking a young, gay author's literary coming-of-age in New York during the AIDS crisis"Illuminating, heartbreaking, hilarious, romantic, terrifying, thrilling, baffling, joyous-such is life! And such are the diaries of our great writer Thomas Mallon.