In today's installment of Michael Dirda's weekly column for Book World in the Washington Post, he cites 14 books that aren't bestsellers but are worth reading. One of them is the handwritten manuscript of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, available from Editions des Saints Peres (but not via Amazon), which we''ll be reading next year. The other, which is what mainly prompted me to post this item, is Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters. In his summary, Dirda name-checks several LGBQ connections on this day, Dec. 3:
"In 1950, James Agee was happily at work on the script for 'The African Queen'...and in 1958, the actor John Gielgud was busily cruising gay bars in San Francisco. Finally, on Dec. 3, 1967, the poet Thom Gunn wrote chattily to a friend about 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and a visit from the novelist Christopher Isherwood, who reminisced about how sexy and attractive W.H. Auden used to be.'
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