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Part memoir, part extended essay, Visions and Revisions is a ground-breaking go through the 1990s Assists epidemic from "one in our most daring and singularly proficient writers working today" (San Francisco Chronicle). Reminiscent of Joan Didion's White Record or Kurt Vonnegut's Hand Weekend, Visions and Revisions is a collage-style family portrait of a tumultuous age that sets the listener on the streets of NYC during the early '90s Assists crisis, also touching on such diverse subject matter as the serial murders of gay men, Peck's first enjoys upon developing, and the transformation of LGBT folks from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present devote an environment of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance. Visions and Revisions capitalizes over a influx of increased fascination with the HIV/Assists epidemic, with the recent premiere of the groundbreaking Assists documentary How to Survive a Plague. This is the first memoir by one in our most controversial modern writers, and it includes a jarring, street-level family portrait of Assists activism in the 1990s. Visions and Revisions will follow the Soho Press reissue of Dale Peck's debut novel, Martin and John, which received stunning critical compliment, as well as our release of a fresh anthology he is editing and enhancing. Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work - part memoir, part extended essay - is a foray into what the author calls "the second one half of the first one half Assists epidemic," i.e., the time between 1987, when the Assists Coalition to Unleash Power (Function UP) was founded, and 1996, when the introduction of combination therapy transformed Assists from a electronic death word into a chronic, manageable illness. Visions and Revisions has been put together from more than a dozen essays and articles which may have been thoroughly rewritten and recombined to form a sweeping, collage-style family portrait of a tumultuous era.