"Frontline Voices"

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"Frontline Voices"

The Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 62
Latzky, Eric

Abstract: Eric Latzky, in a book review for The Advocate, calls Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS, edited by John Preston, "valid and powerful". According to Latzkey, Preston makes a point that it is those who know most intimately what AIDSis about who are most qualified to talk about the epidemic. Personal Dispatches is an anthology of nonfiction pieces by writers whose lives have been touched by AIDS in one way or another. Some pieces date back to the early 1980s, which Latzkeysays "creates a chilling, retrospective sense of the fear that marked the 1980s." Latzky believes the book falls short in some instances; most notably in the virtual omission of women authors (only two contributions are from women) and the anthology just begins to address the fact that AIDS affects more than simply homosexual males.

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