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AI Summary
- Writer Thomas Mallon examines his experiences in his 30s during the early AIDS epidemic in Manhattan, where friends were sick or dead
- His journals from those years are collected in 'The Very Heart of It' and his novel 'Up with the Sun' is based on a 1950s-60s gay actor's life and murder
- Episode remembers jazz singer Sheila Jordan, who died at age 96, and Justin Chang reviews Spike Lee's 'Highest 2 Lowest'
Guests on This Episode
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Thomas Mallon
1 podcast appearance