How It Will Be For You?

This post was submitted by semi-regular contributor Philip Clark.

It’ll be as good for you as it is for me. Trust me.

What’s happening?: Andrew Sean Greer is coming to Politics & Prose bookstore (5015 Connecticut Avenue NW) this Thursday, June 5th at 7 p.m. He’ll be reading from and signing copies of his new novel, The Story of a Marriage.

Who is he?: A marvelous, critically-acclaimed gay writer who first hit it big with his short story collection How It Was For Me. I can’t vouch for his earlier novels, The Path of Minor Planets or The Confessions of Max Tivoli, but I was working with the D.C.-based Lambda Literary Foundation when How It Was For Me was released, and it made waves. It featured little gems like “Come Live with Me and Be My Love,” and “The Walker,” and since most good writers don’t completely crap out from book to book, I assume The Story of a Marriage will be just as much an event.

Why should you go?: Because, despite a post from back in January bemoaning the state of gay fiction, there’s a lot of good gay writing out there if you know where to look for it. (Hint: it doesn’t necessarily make the front window of Lambda Rising, but it’s somewhere in the store. And no, it’s not in the back, either.) Plus, Greer was born in D.C., and it’s always nice to see a local boy make good, right? (Editor's note: He's hot, too.)