Beginnings
This book began as an essay about the suicide of my best friend, a painter, antique-picker, and novelist named Gay Edward Milius III. At a certain point I realized that I couldn’t write that story without writing about the community in New York where he’d lived for some twenty years and where, after a valiant, failed effort to change the course of his l…
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