Inheritance - Gerson, David

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Résumé :
David Gerson is a writer and attorney who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to attending law school, David worked in the theatre industry in New York City where he developed and produced new work by Jenny Schwartz, Nathan Parker and Sarah Overman. As the General Manager of New York Stage and Film, he developed new plays by Richard Greenberg, Eve Ensler and Christopher Shinn, among others. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, he has spent most of his adult life trying to escape his Southern roots. Nevertheless, a man in a bow tie and seersucker suit makes him weak in the knees, he won't ever turn down a bowl of Mrs. Fearnow's Brunswick Stew, and y'all is a permanent part of his vocabulary.David loves to travel the world and is one continent away from reaching his goal of visiting all of them by his 50th birthday. David shares his home with an adorable and very demanding puggle named Jackie, who rescued him at a very low point in his life. He works long hours to maintain Jackie in the lifestyle to which she has grown accustomed. And he wouldn't have it any other way.David is a proud board member of Iron Crow Theatre, Baltimore's only queer theatre company, and writes for DC Metro Theater Arts....

Biographie:
David Gerson is a writer and attorney who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to attending law school, David worked in the theatre industry in New York City where he developed and produced new work by Jenny Schwartz, Nathan Parker and Sarah Overman. As the General Manager of New York Stage and Film, he developed new plays by Richard Greenberg, Eve Ensler and Christopher Shinn, among others. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, he has spent most of his adult life trying to escape his Southern roots. Nevertheless, a man in a bow tie and seersucker suit makes him weak in the knees, he won't ever turn down a bowl of Mrs. Fearnow's Brunswick Stew, and y'all is a permanent part of his vocabulary.David loves to travel the world and is one continent away from reaching his goal of visiting all of them by his 50th birthday. David shares his home with an adorable and very demanding puggle named Jackie, who rescued him at a very low point in his life. He works long hours to maintain Jackie in the lifestyle to which she has grown accustomed. And he wouldn't have it any other way.David is a proud board member of Iron Crow Theatre, Baltimore's only queer theatre company, and writes for DC Metro Theater Arts....

Sommaire:

Lost and Found by David Gerson reveals the vulnerability and inner strength that it takes to grow up gay and Jewish in the South. His discoveries about his supposed lioness mother who failed to protect him and his siblings, his bear of a father who remained always in the shadows, and other memorable characters that appear in his life story represent both marked loss and discovery. Gerson explores

the multitude of losses and discoveries one makes traversing the complicated landscapes of friendship, sexuality, marriage and divorce, heritage and religion. He culminates his journey in the discovery that no matter the losses, we keep going forward, pushing on, because above all, this is a life and it is enough.

Philia by Stephen McMaster invites us into the tumultuous life of a gay Southern man, adopted as a baby from an orphanage in Ireland. Armed with quivers of useless knowledge he survives bullies, abuse, and the messy and often desperate experience of growing up within his own family by reading multiple sets of encyclopedias, and becoming the family Distractor in Chief. McMaster's transformation from an alcoholic to a sober man in recovery who even finds himself practicing affirmations with a paid listener. As he helps other men in the program, he learns about the power of love through fellowship, for others, and finally, for himself.

With wry, understated humor, McMaster shares with us his family's Southern drama, ratings of bathrooms around the country, corsets from JCPenney in the 1970s, lurid affairs, and a generous serving of his grandmother's crabcakes.