Bill Clegg Redux II: Jonathan Galassi's Poems, "Left-handed"

After you've read Bill Clegg's memoirs old and new in which he is called Bill, and seen Ira Sachs' movie based on his long relationship with Bill Clegg in which he is called Paul, you can read FSG kingpin Jonathan Galassi's new book of poems Left-handed about his "unrequited" love for Bill Clegg in which he is called Jude. Galassi, 62, was married to a woman for 30 years then fell in love with the much younger man. Three years later Michael Cunningham published his novel about a middle-aged married man falling in love for the first time with a much younger man with a drug habit, and not consummating their relationship. His book is dedicated to Galassi, who edited it. Cunningham tells the NYT: “I knew what he was going through, but I certainly didn’t base my book on him. I had begun it before. If there’s an overlap, it’s what happens when writers are friends and talk to one another.” Literary scholars say time travel may reveal Thomas Mann's inspiration for Tadzio was a young Bill Clegg. Hollywood watchers already know Diane Keaton's new memoir is dedicated to her literary agent, Bill Clegg. 

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