I Told You So; Desire; Cowboys, Armageddon and the Truth

ITold You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics (OR Books) gathers together four of Vidal’s interviews with writer and radio host Jon Wiener, proving that the gay icon was as gifted a gabber as he was a writer. Spanning 1988-2008, the interviews offer a fascinating cross-section of two decades’ worth of American politics.

In Desire: Tales of New Orleans (Chelsea Station Editions), William Sterling Walker heats things up—with stories as steamy and sassy as the city itself. Full of vivid characters, Desire serves up a delicious slice of gay life in pre-Katrina New Orleans with plenty of nostalgia and heart.

Cowboys, Armageddon and the Truth (Lethe Press), Scott Terry’s account of his childhood as a Jehovah’s Witness, is a riveting and wrenching read, likely to resonate with fans of Running with Scissors and any gay man who survived a conservative religious upbringing. Though it has its fair share of difficult moments, Cowboys is, ultimately, a story of redemption—albeit not the religious kind.