The author presents humorous narratives about his mother's dating experiences in the 1950s and his own experiences--the truth of which the author is ambiguous about--as a young, single, straight-but-assumed-to-be-gay Oklahoma man in New York City in the 1990s.
Illustrations and photographs describe the life and reign of seventeenth-century Swedish queen, Christian, who assumed the throne at age six after the death of her father.
A memoir in which the author, a former editor for the "New York Times Book Review," tells about his life growing up as an African-American in an Ohio steel town, and later at an exclusive, upstate New York university during the 1950s and 60s.
