John Loughery, Author Henry Holt & Company $35 (527p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3896-5
Neither as academically rigorous as George Chauncey's Gay New York (1994) nor as entertainingly gossipy as Charles Kaiser's The Gay Metropolis (1997), this broader history nevertheless fills in new swaths of our emerging picture of 20th-century gay...
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John Loughery, Author Persea Books $29.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-89255-186-6
The postwar American authors whose work Loughery ( Alias S. S. Van Dine ) has gathered here provide a wide-ranging reading of what it means to be young in America. With many heavy-hitters (including John Updike and Alice Walker) and a solid...
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John Loughery, Author Henry Holt & Company $37.5 (438p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2878-2
In 1904, realist painter John Sloan (1871-1951) left a snug life in Pennsylvania for New York City, where he became a chronicler of the urban scene and a founder of the Ashcan school. This biography, as dynamic and colorful as a Sloan canvas, gives...
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John Loughery and Blythe Randolph. Simon and Schuster, $30 (460) ISBN 978-1-982103-49-1
Biographers Loughery (Dagger John) and Randolph (Charles Lindbergh) deliver a painstakingly detailed portrait of Catholic social activist Dorothy Day (1897–1980). Born in Brooklyn, Day experienced “genteel poverty” before her sportswriter father...
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