This book brings together some of Edmund White's essays, articles and reviews from more than 20 years, and presents a portrait of the writer and his time. The book features interviews, profiles and essays which focus on the literary and cultural figures whose work has most influenced White: Nabokov, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tennesse Williams, Michel Foucault, Pasoline, Roland Barthes, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote and Marguerite Yourcenar. Interweaved with these are a series of articles which illuminate Edmund White's response to the political dimensions of homosexual life - a response that centres on the importance of friendship when AIDS enters the scene.
- ISBN10 1299007708
- ISBN13 9781299007703
- Publish Date 1 January 2010 (first published 19 May 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Vintage
- Format eBook
- Language English