that they left out the dates of the entries is egregious. (When? How? With whom?)Īnd while I appreciate the editors' choice to leave out each day's "Dear Diary". For example, in one entry Lou comments that he wishes he could learn how to have sex "like a gay man", and in another entry not a few pages onward he mentions doing so with a new lover, as if he's learned the practicalities in the interim. Perhaps not intentionally (after all, we're talking thirty years of near-daily journaling), but their choices leave me scratching my head. Stupendously awkward-which is rather a shame, because who wants a book they can only read at home?Īs for their editing-it honestly feels to me like they mangled Lou's diaries. Between the title (which is frankly beautiful, and could work well if paired with a tasteful cover) and the naked butt, it looks to a casual passer-by like erotica. Lou's sexually-explicit musings) don't bother me at all, I'm not comfortable carrying this with me on the bus to work (let alone to work at all). Why couldn't they just put a photo of Lou? Or something-dare I say anything?-other than a naked butt? I'm a conservative gay man in Wisconsin and, while the interior content (i.e. My issues are with the editors, in both their editing choices and their choices of cover. Firstly-my three stars have nothing to do with Lou's words.
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