The Royal We: A Memoir documents Roddy Bottum’s coming of age – and out of the closet. Bottum chronicles his travels from growing up gay without role models in Los Angeles to 1980s San Francisco, where he formed the Grammy-nominated band Faith No More. He went on to tour the world, surviving heroin addiction and the plight of AIDS, and ultimately became a queer icon. Thomas Mallon’s The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 offers a portrait of a young gay writer’s literary evolution in 1980s and ’90s New York amid the AIDS crisis. Drawn from his journals, it captures parties, politics, love, and loss, as Mallon charts his path from unknown professor to acclaimed novelist and magazine editor, preserving both personal triumphs and the heartbreak of a vanished era. In Care and Feeding: A Memoir, Laurie Woolever retraces her path through a food world that is by turns toxic and intoxicating, in which she was both bolstered and overshadowed by two of the most powerful men in the business – Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. Acerbic and wryly self-deprecating, she attempts to carve her own space while holding on to what she truly values: care and feeding.
Buy The Royal We: A Memoir – Bottum
Buy The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries 1983-1994 – Mallon
Buy Care and Feeding: A Memoir – Woolever
