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Gay and Lesbian Review by Andrew Holleran | Apr. 16, 2007 (Special Report)

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS DIED just when AIDS was starting to explode (1983)--eight years after his Memoirs were published (1975), to more than one hostile review from a critic offended by the frank sexuality of the text. ( "If he has not exactly opened his heart," went one notice, "he has opened his fly.") Now New Directions is republishing them with an introduction by John Waters and an afterword by Allean Heale.

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by andrew lenz - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a glib review about a more glib author, the brilliant master of stage drama Tennessee Williams. Quoting a small portion of the playwrite's memoirs, the author inter-connects and weaves with his description as if he were part of the original. Definitely good review and informative.