The Beautiful Room Is Empty Format:Paperback Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own

With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day

and leaders speak honestly and authentically about their own experiences with power

Despite their age difference

The Beautiful Room Is Empty Format:Paperback Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel AwardWhen the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a