Lots. So many. But in a desire not to overwhelm you…
Armistead Maupin is one of the finest American writers of the last fifty years, and his Tales of the City sequence is an astonishing view of life mostly in San Francisco since the 1970s. Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Bi, and straight characters, in a novel sequence of astonishing immediacy (immediate because the first half dozen books were written as weekly instalments in a daily newspaper).
Currently it’s a sequence of nine books. You can also get them in some places in three collections of three books each.
Enjoy.
spinel-hates-cops-blog asked: How many jokes have you heard about your last name this year?
Er… none. I don’t hang out with people who make Gay jokes, though.
Well, not the kind of gay jokes they made about my last name at school, anyway. (The In Conversation I did with Armistead Maupin last week at the Royal Festival Hall was filled with very gay jokes.)
The last gay joke about my name I remember was probably at the GLAAD awards in 1997. But that was me making it, about the fact that this was the first time I’d ever had a room full of people applaud me for correcting the pronunciation of my name. So long, long ago…
This wedding happened in my parlor.
(And Ayelet is not in it because she was taking the photograph.)
Lisa Brown and Armistead Maupin and the Chabon-Waldman assistant Amy do tragic horror best. The rest of us manage to look either baffled or sleepy.