Blind Items: A (Love) Story

Following the tremendous success of his wickedly funny best seller Boy Culture Matthew Rettenmund offered up Blind Items: A (Love) Story an even more complicated - and at times heartbreaking - portrait of modern love.Meet David Greer. Hes a wisecracking thirty-something everyman whos fiercely smart and unapologetically gay. Hes also struggling to make a splash as a writer in New York a goal that seems far off considering his day job as a reluctant copy editor for a slew of porn magazines. His only glimpse into the world of fame and fortune is through the occasional party invites for himself and his loyal buddy Carol Terry from their old friend Warren Junior a gossip famous for his catty Off the List column.At one of these fabulous to-dos David meets - and falls for - TV hunk Alan Dillinger superstar of the hit TV show Lifesavers. Hes hot smart caring rich famous and everything else David could want in a man except for one thing: Hes closeted.The ensuing courtship dripping with scheming agents and publicists sharklike paparazzi and a particularly prying gossip columnist navigates the choppy waters of gay relationships in the 90s. All the while the story of John Dewey a kid obsessed with a long-dead gay silent movie romeo - and with his own burgeoning queer identity - unfolds making waves in this story of gay life in the past present and future.Rettenmunds second novel brimming with celebrity cameos and outrageous blind items is a provocative witty (love) story that is moving and full of heart and a poignant period piece with plenty of exclamation-point twists and turns.