Guest: JOHN WEIR Topic: Writing during the AIDS pandemic.

John Weir is the author of two novels, the Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, winner of the 1989 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men‘s Debut Fiction, and What I Did Wrong. His collection of linked stories  Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me, Linked Stories won  theGrace Paley Prize in Short Fiction.He is an associate professor of English at Queens College CUNY where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing and literary translation. In 1991 with members of Act Up New York, he interrupted Dan Rather’s CBS Evening News to protest government and media neglect of AIDS. His nonfiction pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone,Spin, TriQuarterly, and Gulf Coast and many anthologies, including the Columbia Reader in Lesbian and Gay Studies, Taking Liberties and Beyond Queer He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Today John joins us to discuss his novels and writing during the AIDS pandemic.