by Dan Savage
I've been reading Dan Savage's Savage Love for years and years now, and when I'm in the mood for Podcasts (which I have to admit, I rarely am, I just can't seem to get into them, it puzzles me greatly), I often listen to his Savage Lovecast. He's generally quite open about himself, his life and his ...
Think what you want about Dan Savage and his sex advice columns, his story of how he and his boyfriend adopted a baby boy is irreverently funny and touchingly honest.
I was reminded of this checking out Dan's new thing, the It'll Get Better Project - "It'll get better! But not for you" - anyway, this is a terrific book.
I read these books in opposite order, so I'm used to thinking about DJ as an eight year old. It was touching to read the story about how they became a family. As always Dan's writing is initmate, with just the perfect touch of snark --the guy at the cocktail party that you are so glad you ended up n...
This is a very good book: funny in a self-deprecating way, uncomfortably honest in a funny way, intelligently perceptive under a veneer of cynicism and comedic exaggeration, and seriously committed to family. (Savage makes a big deal about how much his Irish-Catholic roots influence him, and indeed ...
Dan Savage brings the same frank, occasionally filthy voice familiar from his popular sex advice column and podcasts to his first book, published about a decade ago. Unfortunately, he also brings along his tendency to get sidetracked with political rants and his penchant for beating the same points ...
Detailed account of Savage and his boyfriend adopting a son. Witty, heart-breaking, and insightful. I got a good sense of how hard this process can be on both sides: the adoptive families and the biological mothers. Another author might make this maudlin or "educational," but Savage manages to keep ...
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