memoir
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Queerguru reviews Logical Family A Memoir: by Armistead Maupin
Maupin had a problem with his parents. Elements of his family’s dynamics surface in much of his best work. Michael Tolliver, the charming character in the “Tales of the City” series, famously writes a coming out letter to his Mama after she joins the Anita Bryant campaign to “Save Our Children.” Maupin’s parents never responded…
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A Year By The Sea
Joan Anderson’s best selling memoir A Year By The Sea about when she took herself off from her moribund marriage after she became an empty nester, has finally been adapted into a movie. The story however is less about falling out of love with her rather whiny husband Robin (Michael Cristofer) (who would frankly test the…
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Memories of A Penitent Heart
When Cecilia Aldarondo’s mother was clearing her garage out in 2008 she called her daughter and asked if she would be interested in a box of decaying 8mm home movies and several hundred slides that she had just uncovered. Little did she know then when she agreed to take the box did she ever imagine the…
