Rocky Mountain News: Major Conflict : One Gay Man’s Life in the Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell Military is the first memoir of a soldier coming to terms with his sexuality under the policy: “I could meet the standard, I was popular, I was accepted by my peers; my blood would shed as red as easily as the straight soldier fighting next to me. Why was I forbidden to be the person I am?”

Tom Wolfe writes about the late Hunter S. Thompson, a writer who “came as advertised.”: “‘I’ve got something in there that would clear out this restaurant in 20 seconds,’ said Hunter. He began opening the bag.”