Eric Newman is a writer and researcher whose work explores questions of race, belonging, identification and utopian imagination 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, co-host and executive producer of the LARB Radio Hour on KPFK LA 90.7FM and a lecturer in English at UCLA. He lives in Santa Monica.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Technicolor Saints and Celebrated Outlaws: An Interview with John Rechy
Eric Newman speaks with John Rechy about his latest novel, “Pablo!,” and the struggles and pleasures that have attended his long career as a writer....
The Self in Sex: Lust and Loss in Jonathan Dollimore’s “Desire: A Memoir”
Eric Newman considers Jonathan Dollimore's "Desire: A Memoir."...
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....
