(Back Bay, 320 pp., $17.99.) According to our reviewer, Hugh Ryan, Atherton Lin “has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discussing gay sex.” He focuses on one gay bar per chapter in this lyrical memoir, jumping from San Francisco to London to Los Angeles, to tell a story about life “flensed down to just the bits that made it past the bouncer.”ĭEAR SENTHURAN: A Black Spirit Memoir, by Akwaeke Emezi. GAY BAR: Why We Went Out, by Jeremy Atherton Lin.
