On June 3 of this year, the novelist and essayist Edmund White died. I’ve written an abbreviated account of our friendship, and, because, even abbreviated, it is still rather long, I will publish it here in two installments. Here is the first.
EDMUND WHITE, 1940-2025
In his recent memoir The Loves of My Life, Edmund White describes me as his friend of lo…
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