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  • Your Nostalgia is Killing Me
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  • John Weir, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction for Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me, is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, winner of the 1989 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Debut Fiction, and What I Did Wrong. He is an associate professor of English at Queens College CUNY, where he teaches the MFA in creative writing and literary translation. In 1991, with members of ACT UP New York, he interrupted Dan Rather’s CBS Evening News to protest government and media neglect of AIDS. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
  • 2022
  • Published by: Red Hen Press
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  • AN HONEST LOOK into the AIDS pandemic and toxic masculinity in America
  • THE GRACE PALEY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION AWARD WINNER - selected by Dr. Amina Gautier
  • AWARD WINNING AUTHOR John Weir is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction
  • FOR FANS OF the book The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, the play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, and the musicals Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom by Jonathan Larson

John Weir, author of The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, a defining novel of 1980s New York in its response to the global AIDS crisis, has written a story collection that chronicles the long aftermath of epidemic death, as recorded in the tragicomic voice of a gay man who survived high school in the 1970s, the AIDS death of his best friend in the 1990s, and his complicated relationship with his mother, “a movie star without a movie to star in,” whose life is winding to a close in a retirement community where she lives alone with her last dog.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 1-4
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 9-12
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  1. AIDS Nostalgia
  1. Neorealism at the Infiniplex
  2. pp. 17-25
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  1. American Graffiti
  2. pp. 26-53
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  1. Scenes from a Marriage
  2. pp. 54-70
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  1. Kid A
  2. pp. 71-85
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  1. It Must Be Swell to Be Laying Out Dead
  2. pp. 86-92
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  1. Katherine Mansfield
  2. pp. 93-138
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  1. Political Funerals
  2. pp. 139-140
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  1. Long-Term Survivors
  1. The Origin of the Milky Way
  2. pp. 145-158
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  1. Humoresque
  2. pp. 159-179
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  1. Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me
  2. pp. 180-204
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  1. Imitation of Life
  1. It Gets Worse
  2. pp. 209-223
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  1. Biographical Note
  2. p. 224
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