Thank you for pointing me towards the Garrett; being not often a YA person it hadn't been on my radar yet.
Your point about a new kind of HIV/AIDS art really fascinates me; what narratives do we have for it now? How useful are those that we've inherited? That's one reason I was really struck by It's a Sin having a noticeable albeit anecdotal effect on HIV/AIDS charities in Britain (I read it in a New Yorker piece, I believe)--that this very historically specific story still was had such strong reverberations in the present. But what about present-day stories?
I have read The World Only Spins Forward, and was there ever a better book written about a better play? It felt so loving without tipping over into hagiography (though could you have blamed them); also, not for nothing, their success in building a structure and narrative through their interviews was top-notch oral history.
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Your point about a new kind of HIV/AIDS art really fascinates me; what narratives do we have for it now? How useful are those that we've inherited? That's one reason I was really struck by It's a Sin having a noticeable albeit anecdotal effect on HIV/AIDS charities in Britain (I read it in a New Yorker piece, I believe)--that this very historically specific story still was had such strong reverberations in the present. But what about present-day stories?
I have read The World Only Spins Forward, and was there ever a better book written about a better play? It felt so loving without tipping over into hagiography (though could you have blamed them); also, not for nothing, their success in building a structure and narrative through their interviews was top-notch oral history.