I found this memoir remarkable for Yamas’ ability to write through his drug use and not around it. Leaning to impairment, he invites the reader to examine their own. TWEAKERWORLD won the 2024 Lambda Literary Gay Memoir/Bio Award. My review appears in Issue 4 of THE WHITNEY REVIEW, now printed by Asterism. Yamas spent a… Continue reading TWEAKERWORLD Review in The Whitney Review
Month: November 2024
WE THE PARASITES review @ G&LR
After reading dozens of queer nonfiction titles in the process of judging three (!) awards last year, A.V. Marraccini’s WE THE PARASITES was one of two that really stayed with me. It’s a slim volume with an outsized impact, lyrical, probing, fraught with emotions and erotic longing. From the review, which went live on the… Continue reading WE THE PARASITES review @ G&LR