John Weir

Broschiertes Buch

Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me

Beschreibung

In eleven linked stories, prize-winning novelist John Weir brings his wit and compassion to the question of how a gay white guy from New Jersey lived through fifty years of the twin crises of global AIDS and toxic masculinity in America.

Autor

John Weir, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction for Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me, is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, winner of the 1989 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Debut Fiction, and What I Did Wrong. He is an associate professor of English at Queens College CUNY, where he teaches the MFA in creative writing and literary translation. In 1991, with members of ACT UP New York, he interrupted Dan Rather’s CBS Evening News to protest government and media neglect of AIDS. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Red Hen Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781636280295
• ISBN-10: 1636280293
• Artikelnr.: 62481536