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Author Dan Savage often draws upon his own experiences in his writings about gay life and popular culture. His bluntly honest syndicated advice column, Savage Love, now appears in more than 60 papers. The Kid, his award-winning memoir of gay adoption, tells the story of D.J., the son that Savage and his partner Terry adopted at birth. In his new book, The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family (Dutton), Savage explores the issue of gay marriage, as the couple, who lives in Seattle, struggles with the decision of whether to tie the knot in Canada. We caught...
...different in tone and approach as the smooth, expansive river that dominates Along the Ganges is from the wild Celtic waters in the sailing odyssey Cape Wrath to Finisterre. New works arriving in 2006 serve up a gastro-tour of Italy, a road trip through China and a memoir of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. What unites each account is the authors' passion for travel. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer...
Those events--her husband's death and her daughter's illness--are the subject of Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf; 227 pages). And as it turned out, nobody, not even Joan Didion, could have been ready for them...
...same time, however, Oxnam's private life was falling apart. He suffered from alcoholism and bulimia and flew into frequent, irrational rages. Several nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...
...stand before God, having done a bunch of ice." ASHLEY SMITH, Atlanta woman hailed in March for persuading the man who held her hostage--after killing a judge and three others--to surrender by reading aloud from the spiritual best seller The Purpose-Driven Life, in a new memoir revealing that she also gave him some crystal methamphetamine but refused to do drugs with...