The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 Alice RL found that "to watch him

found that "to watch him walk into a room was an experience

and on the brink of destitution

and fired from important leadership positions

illicit partying

The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 Alice RL found that "to watch himA 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. . . . I found myself reading