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Set in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, What I Did Wrong is a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-year-old English professor, haunted by the death of his best friend, Zack, who died theatrically and calamitously of AIDS. Tom himself slouches gingerly and precariously into middle age questioning every certainty he had about himself as a gay man while negotiating the field of his college classes, populated as they are with guys whose cocky bravado can't quite compensate for their own confused masculinity. Tom tries to balance his awkwardly developing friendships with them. In the process, he begins to find common ground with these proud young men and, surprisingly, a way to claim his own place in the world, and in history. A powerfully moving—and often disarmingly funny—book about loss, character, and sexuality in the wake of AIDS, What I Did Wrong is a survivor's tale in an age when all certainties have lost their logic and focus. It is a romance that embraces its objects from the traumas of toxic masculinity to the aftermath of catastrophic loss amidst the enduring allure of New York City in all its manic and heartbreaking grandeur.

Table of Contents:
Part One: Gender Trouble 1 Texas is the Reason 3 Deadguy 25 Youthanasia 45 Songs for Swinging Lovers 63 Where Do You See Yourself? 79 Already Gone 103 Part Two: Open Secrets 123 Sick Fuck 125 They Live by Night 149 How To Disappear Completely 167 Kevin Spacey Has a Secret 193 The Destiny of Me 211 Abgesturzt 229

About the Author :
John Weir is a professor of English and creative writing at Queens College, CUNY. He is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket and What I Did Wrong, both available from New York ReLit, an imprint of Fordham University Press. Weir's short story collection, Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me (Red Hen Press, 2022), is the winner of the 2020 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.

Review :
A wry memoir of the AIDS era that is not so much elegy as ode to a hopeful and even lyric future.-- "The Baltimore Sun" Weir's prose has humor and grace to spare.-- "Publishers Weekly" A lovely, wrenching, funny, erudite novel, heavy with history and loss and beauty.---David Rakoff Extraordinary . . . among other things one of the best books about how ordinary folks live in New York now.---Edmund White, The Village Voice


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781531501907
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Fordham University Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1531501907
  • Publisher Date: 03 May 2022
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 277


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