Eric Newman is a writer, researcher and Ph.D. Candidate in English at UCLA. His scholarship explores questions of belonging and identification across the color line in early twentieth century queer American literature. A former reporter for Condé Nast and Nielsen Business Media, he is currently the Gender & Sexuality editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as a co-host and executive producer of the LARB Radio Hour on KPFK LA 90.7FM. He lives in Santa Monica.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Between the Sheets: Sex, Power, and Literary Desire in John Rechy’s “After the Blue Hour”
Eric Newman appreciates the lessons of “After the Blue Hour” by John Rechy....
The Intimate World of Edmund White
The latest from America’s fabulist of post-Stonewall gay life documents an increasingly narrow vision of a queer world....
Queer Kinship: Truman Capote’s Early Stories and the Queer Child
Blueprints of the august, confident and delightfully acerbic writer-to-come....
The Feels of Friendship
Korean dramas have refreshing views of same-sex friendship, but do their gains depend on a gay retreat to the closet?...
Republic of Trauma
Roxane Gay has written an important and unforgettable new novel that expertly navigates the emotional terrain between captivity and freedom, trauma and healing, the personal and the political....
