SOURCE: "Out of the Fog," in San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 2, Fall, 1992, pp. 5-6.

In the following review, Hagan compares the themes of Maybe the Moon with those of the Tales novels.

It's an airy spacious place, a penthouse cresting a Noe Valley hill, that Armistead Maupin calls home. Even on a cloudy San Francisco summer day, the living room glows with light from the expanse of windows looking out over the city—Maupin's home of twenty years. As an avid reader of Tales of the City, I arrived with a bounty of questions regarding his latest novel, in which he strays from his familiar San Francisco cast and setting and moves to contemporary Los Angeles to explore the trials of a 31-inch tall Jewish woman in Tinseltown. I had read the new book, had been assured that Maupin was still Maupin, and was anxious to...