Armistead Maupin

Jun 26, 2024 | thewholeu.uw.edu | Armistead Maupin |Claire Jimenez |Charlotte Vassell |Elinor Lipman

Great summer reads: hot takes for hot days from the University Book Store Posted on by Ed Kromer. This entry was posted in Engaging Interests. Bookmark the permalink. Summer reading is a vibe. An escape. A passage to points unknown but utterly captivating.

May 29, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Armistead Maupin |Cookie Woolner |Dean Spade |Torrey Peters

Reading Lists These books, both fiction and nonfiction, remind readers of what collective power has achieved in the past, and to imagine what it could do in the future I wrote much of Lesbian Love Story during the Covid-19 lockdown, when I was desperate to build queer community inside the walls of my own home. From my living room, with the cat making the occasional interjection as she strutted across the keyboard, I slowly connected with a community of archivists at libraries, universities,...

May 13, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Armistead Maupin |Eve Batey

Author Armistead Maupin in London. Photo: Christopher Turner“I still believe San Francisco is the greatest city in the world,” Armistead Maupin tells the Chronicle from his London home. The 80-year-old author would know.

Mar 17, 2024 | sltrib.com | Charles Wright |Philip Roth |Fran Ross |Armistead Maupin

When it comes to fiction, humor is serious business. If tragedy appeals to the emotions, wit appeals to the mind. "You have to know where the funny is," the writer Sheila Heti says, "and if you know where the funny is, you know everything." Humor is a bulwark against complacency and conformity, mediocrity and predictability. With all this in mind, we've put together a list of 22 of the funniest novels written in English since Joseph Heller's "Catch-22″ (1961).

Mar 16, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Armistead Maupin

In a little village in the midst of Britain’s Cotswolds sits Easley House, a grand English manor whose glory days appear to be behind it. Lord Teddy Roughton, Easley House’s most recent heir, married Mona Ramsey, a colorful American woman, so that he could run off to live his dream in San Francisco. Lord Teddy left his wife behind to run the manor. Being Her Ladyship suits her when it suits her, which is to say when paying guests arrive.