Writer Thomas Mallon On His AIDS-Era Diaries
9 March 2023 - 45 mins
Podcast Series
Fresh Air
Mallon talks about his diaries that were recently published in the New Yorker, in a piece titled Finding My Way — and Staying Alive — During the AIDS Crisis: A Diary of 1980s Manhattan. He was in his thirties then. His latest novel, Up With the Sun, is based on the life and murder of Dick Kallman, a closeted actor in the 1950s and '60s.
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