Close to the Knives

First bit of reading for my Writer in New York  seminar. I still have about 50 pages to go, but it's definitely one of the better books I've read this year; David Wojnarowicz (Voe-na-roe-vitch) is an incredibly talented essayist (Paul Graham is being given a run for his money) and the book's probably the best book I've read about the AIDS crisis in America during the 80s. There are some phenomenal descriptions and Wojnarowicz has a fantastically mordant sense of humor. Chances are, a couple readers of this blog are going to be given this book and strongly encouraged to read it -- I get like that with certain books. As John Green might put it, I'm prone to a certain evangelical zeal when it comes to good literature.