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My Friendship with Edmund White

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Jul 22, 2025
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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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