Armistead Maupin Critical Essay | Critical Review by David Feinberg

SOURCE: "Goodnight, Mrs. Madrigal," in The New York Times Book Review, October 22, 1989, p. 26.

An American novelist, essayist, and critic, Feinberg was a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). His final work, Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone, was published near the time of his death in 1994. In the following review of Sure of You, Feinberg examines the influence of the AIDS crisis on the novel's characters and plot.

Farewell to 28 Barbary Lane. Sure of You is the sixth and final volume in Armistead Maupin's remarkable Tales of the City series, an extended love letter to a magical San Francisco. The first five volumes were serialized in San Francisco newspapers. A master of compression, Mr. Maupin crams information into short, delectable, addictive chapters ideal for post-Vonnegut attention spans. I know I'm not the only one who was...
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