First Comes Love
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Pantheon, 1996
Random House Audio, 1996
Vintage, 1997
A New York Times Notable Book;
Winner of the Austin Writers League Violet Crown Award;
In development for motion picture release.
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When Marion Winik fell in love with Tony Heubach during a wild Mardi Gras in New Orleans, her friends shook their heads. For starters, she was straight and he was gay. But Marion and Tony's impossible love turned out to be true enough to produce a marriage and two beautiful sons, true enough to weather drug addiction, sexual betrayal, and the AIDS that would kill Tony at the age of thirty-seven, twelve years after they met.
In a memoir heartbreaking and hilarious by turns, Marion Winik tells a story that is all more powerful for the way in which it defies easy judgments. As it charts the trajectory of a marriage so impossible that it became inevitable, First Comes Love reminds us—poignantly indelibly—that every story is a special case.
Things to Read
• "I Knew He Was Gay and I Married Him Anyway," for Oprah Daily
• Journalist Jane Winik Sartwell interviews her mom, for Writer's Digest
• On People.com: A Marriage, An AIDS Diagnosis, and A Death By Suicide: The Story of First Comes Love
• On Lit Hub: Read or listen to the new introduction, Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction
• In Publishers Weekly: Twelve Memoirs of Widowhood
• "My Life as a Memoirist" for The Shit They Don't Tell You About Writing substack
• Audiofile review, very nice
• Leslie Gray Streeter's article in The Baltimore Banner
• On Baltimore Fishbowl: Happy 30th Birthday, First Comes Love: Behind the Scenes of the New Audiobook
Things to Listen To or Watch
• Tom Hall interview on WYPR's Midday
• PRH podcast, "This is the Author"
• Jason Blitman's superfun "Gays Reading" podcast
• Dani Shapiro's podcast Family Secrets, "Should We Do This?"
• Marion Roach's QWERTY
• Tim Castano's Lit Trip
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