Dive into the archives.
- Jennifer Egan: The Mary Interview
By:Â William Johnson
Photo: Heather GreggRecently we asked Mary readers to name their top literary divas – commanding female writers whose temple we gladly worship. It was not shocking that Jennifer Egan’s name came up over and over again. Jennifer Egan is an awe-inspiring voice because she effortlessly manages to be so many things at [...]
- Hilton Als takes on Madea
“In this video, Als tells the story of Perry’s rise to popularity, analyzes the roots of his iconic matriarchal alter-ego, Madea, and discusses the role of camp and religion in his movies.”
via “The New Yorker”
- Josh Kilmer-Purcell: The Mary Interview
Drag, Booze and Goats: An Interview with Josh Kilmer-Purcell
By Isaac James Baker
Full disclosure: After I picked up a copy of Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s memoir I Am Not Myself These Days I finished it in two days.
It’s a troubling, dark, yet sharply funny story of a hard-drinking, fucked-up, cocaine-addict-loving drag queen in New York.
Kilmer-Purcell’s prose is disturbing, [...]
- John Cheever
I would like to live in a world in which there are no homosexuals,  but I suppose Paradise is thronged with them.   -John Cheever
Thank God Cheever never lived to see the David Barton Gym on a Wednesday night!
John Cheever was the quintessential closeted bard of suburban ennui. Below is an interesting link to a 2009 article [...]
- IPAD
When I was younger, I always envisioned that the end of days for paper-bound books would occur ala Fahrenheit 451; all written text would be destroyed in an apocalyptic burst of censorship happy flames .
“No more risque teenage Judy Blume books for you!!!!!”
It looks like it’s not fire that is bringing about the end of [...]
- Camp Records
JD Doyle, a Houston based musical archivist and DJ , has the most comprehensive collection of gay and queer music on the internet.  Every one who is interested in gay musical history (and I’m not just talking about old Judy Garland/Phyllis Hyman albums) should take a dainty stroll through his website.
One of his most interesting [...]
- Larry Kramer
Writer Jesse Green has written a great profile on the iconic author/activist Larry Kramer in this weeks New York magazine.
The article seems to suggest the same righteous anger that provided Larry the fuel to ignite the AIDS activist movement is the same thing that is hampering his legacy.
Larry is not going quietly into the night.
The [...]
- Buy The Magazine
Mary is seeking to capture and examine queer moments; to offer a surfeit of gay writings of artistic value and give them the showcase they deserve. Mary’s goal is to highlight writings that strive to reveal a perfect homosexual moment without any rationalization other than to skillfully reflect: this is the gay world or this [...]
- The Depressing Media Landscape
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By Richard Perez Pena (via nytimes)
Washington Blade and several other gay newspapers and magazines around the country learned on Monday that they had been shut down after a federal agency that oversaw them was unable to find buyers for them.The abrupt closing of The Blade and several other gay newspapers stunned their employees.
The Blade, founded [...]
