What you get here with White is New York all broke, volatile, sexually charged, and full of people inventing themselves in real time because there was no other option. 

White moves through as someone embedded in its scenes—literary, queer, bohemian—tracking how identity, desire, and ambition were negotiated under pressure. This journey of how a person moved through the city, how class and sexuality intersected, how the idea of “a life in art” was less a career than a series of fragile arrangements; is entirely intoxicating. You can feel the contingencies everywhere: cheap rents, temporary jobs, chance encounters that become entire trajectories.

A clear record of what it meant to come into being in a city that both enabled and consumed people at equal speed.

Later Bloomsbury paperback (2009). General wear to covers, light creasing and edge rubbing; internally clean and solid.