Metro Weekly

Books

  • A Friend Indeed

    By on June 20, 2007

    Hello, old friend. If you're a fan of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, it's impossible to pick up his new book, Michael Tolliver...

  • Sissy Fuss

    By on April 18, 2007

    A freak and a sissy. Not to mention an orphan and, most challenging, a Southerner. Such was the childhood of Kevin Sessums, best known for...

  • Better Left Unsaid

    By on October 25, 2006

    James McGreevey's autobiography, The Confession, is as dismal as his approval ratings were in 2004 when he declared that he was a ''gay American'' and...

  • 'Cirkus' Circus

    By on August 23, 2006

    Reading Patti Frazee's Cirkus is like falling from the high wire knowing there is no net below. You know it's going to be painful, there's...

  • Hard Feelings

    By on August 16, 2006

    Generally, when a novel throws characters at readers in quantities not easily digested, it's time to settle in for either an epic war story or...

  • What Comes Around

    By on July 26, 2006

    For those of us who fell in love with our best friends growing up, Michael Thomas Ford's Full Circle appears to be a dream come...

  • Familiar Terrain

    By on July 5, 2006

    Augusten Burroughs is that guy -- that guy who was the star quarterback back in high school, didn't play in college and now lives in...

  • Surface Story

    By on June 14, 2006

    Sex sells. And when it comes to memoirs, so do drugs, prostitution and pornography. When those words – along with a large, naked photo of...

  • An Unflinching Line

    By on June 7, 2006

    During an interview on the public radio program Studio 360, Daniel Clowes, known (at least to some) as the creator of Ghost World and Ice...

  • Raising the Dead

    By on May 24, 2006

    The Pale Blue Eye Your first reaction upon hearing that Louis Bayard, author of the very successful Mr. Timothy (where he raised the literary spirit...

  • To Tell the Truth

    By on April 5, 2006

    So let's be brutally honest. If I were any kind of critic I would immediately launch into a long list of reasons why you should...

  • Calendar Boys

    By on December 7, 2005

    The weather may be turning cold, but one organization is bringing some heat to the season. Just in time for the new year, Brother, Help...

  • Rainbow's End

    By on November 9, 2005

    You can't blame Alex Sanchez for having mixed feelings as he promotes the final novel in his gay teen trilogy, Rainbow Road. His books have...

  • Tab Browsing

    By on November 2, 2005

    A memoir, by its very definition, is self-serving. Writing ''your'' story can serve as therapy, disclosure, dutiful revelation, apology, even revenge. To some extent, Tab...

  • Wedding Bells

    By on October 19, 2005

    Dan Savage, purveyor of advice to America's sexually kinked and erotically troubled, is justly famous for his no-holds-barred approach to sex. He's also a frequent...