First things first, we’ve got some news about a former Word Riot contributor, Peter Tieryas Liu: Signal 8 Press will be publishing his collection of short stories, Watering Heaven, this October. “The Death Artist,” which appeared here February 2011, is included within the book. Here’s the trailer:
Perhaps you’ve heard by now, Gore Vidal has died at age 86. The New York Times‘ writer Charles McGrath wrote him an excellent obituary.
In 1948 Mr. Vidal published “The City and the Pillar,” which was dedicated to J. T. (Jimmie Trimble). It is what would now be called a coming-out story,
