Luke’s Reviews > The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947 > Status Update

"In fun, I have often threatened my homosexual friends to write a serious, a deep, a moving book on homosexuality." Nin was around and still writing when Baldwin came out with Giovanni's Room. I wonder if she actually seriously engaged with it, or if she ran away and buried her head in the sand, like a typical white cishet woman who likes queerdom only when it doesn't stand up for itself.

He, the lonely one, has trusted woman for the first time, and we start the journey of our friendship, as badly loved children who raised themselves, both stronger and weaker by it.

Oh, Nin. What beauty and what egregiousness do you have in store for me this year? For while you're capable of the most extraordinary bad faith, I can never say that you're boring.