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Novelist Thomas Mallon looks back on the early years of the AIDS epidemic

The New Yorker recently published Mallon's diary excepts detailing life in Manhattan in the '80s. His new novel, Up With the Sun, is based on the life of a little-known actor who was gay and closeted.

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