Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: “read depressing book after depressing book—Good Morning, Midnight and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Giovanni's Room and Under the Volcano, plus a truly ghastly Bret Ellis period during Lent...”
On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín: “James Baldwin's second novel Giovanni's Room, published in 1956, was, like Forster's Maurice, written in a time when homosexuality was not merely forbidden...”
The Disappearers by Marlon James: “Not even Giovanni's Room? 'The Baldwin?'”