Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS.(Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, May, 2001 by KIRP, DAVID L.
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Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS, edited by Edmund White.
University of Wisconsin Press, 305 pages, $29.95.
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In the aftermath of the terse 1981 announcement by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that a strange new disease was killing homosexuals, gay men mastered the art of throwing a funeral. This was not something for which we were prepared or trained--no Martha Stewart or Miss Manners to offer helpful hints--but, of course, no one was prepared for AIDS. Like the citizens of Oran, about whose plight Albert Camus writes feelingly in The Plague, we were ...
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