Rebounding from last year's Gay Men Don't Get Fat, Simon Doonan delivers a fashion gabfest in his sixth book The Asylum: A Collage of Couture Reminiscences...and Hysteria [Kindle]. Overworking the similarities between the glamor industry and the mentally ill, he remains at sixty-one resolutely old school queeny gay -- skipping, whooshing, shrieking over his man bag, making tasteless jokes -- with an iron strength beneath the glitter. If you follow the fashion world, go for it. If you don't, you can still enjoy observing a Firbank character navigate the 21st century.
Avoid Slate's excerpt of the book about what we've lost to aids, which lacks all his talents for quick character sketches, ear for dialog, and eye for folly.
By far his best book is his most personal, Beautiful People: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints [Kindle], a funny, angry, touching memoir about growing up gay in unfabulous Reading, England. As the ever-quotable David Rakoff said on its publication, "If you were ever younger than you are now, you must read this book."
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