“With such ‘impor­tant’ writ­ers as Susan Son­tag and Paul Mon­ette and David Leav­itt as con­trib­u­tors, this com­pi­la­tion is one that must be read and savored. The title refers, obvi­ous­ly, to the way that AIDS has forced itself into the dai­ly lives of all of us. Who among us does not know some­one who is now ill or who has already died of this dis­ease? In point of fact, sev­er­al of the writ­ers in this vol­ume are dead. But the vol­ume is not a polemic. It is a won­der­ful, mov­ing, at times fun­ny, enter­tain­ing col­lec­tion. My per­son­al favorite is ‘In The Gloam­ing’ by a writer I had pre­vi­ous­ly nev­er encoun­tered: Alice Elliott Dark.” (Movie Maven, Amazon.com review)