Edmund White's City Boy: exclusive extracts

Edmund White paints a fascinating picture of gay and literary life in 60s and 70s Manhattan in his latest memoir, City Boy. In these exclusive extracts, printed over the following three pages, he covers the Stonewall riots, the leather bar scene and the intellectual circles he moved in
American writer Edmund White
American writer Edmund White photographed in Paris in 1988. Photograph: Sophie Bassouls/Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis

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