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Gross asked White about his new essay collection The Burning Library, where White reflected on his first encounter with a Greenwich Village backroom bar in 1970.
In your new collection of essays, The Burning Library, you write about the first time you saw one of the backroom bars of Greenwich Village in 1970, and this was shortly after you got back to the vill...
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Episode: Remembering Pioneer Of Gay Lit, Edmund White
Gross asked White about his new essay collection The Burning Library, where White reflected on his first encounter with a Greenwich Village backroom bar in 1970.
In your new collection of essays, The Burning Library, you write about the first time you saw one of the backroom bars of Greenwich Village in 1970, and this was shortly after you got back to the village after living in Rome for close to a year.