SAVE THE DATE! Literary reading by John William Treat set for January 28, 2016

John Whittier Treat, professor emeritus of Japanese from Yale University, will read excerpts from his first novel, “The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House,” on Thursday, January 28, 2016, beginning at 5:30 p.m. His novel crystallizes life for gay men in the 1980’s, intertwining issues of love and the exploration of new relationships with the fear of AIDS. The stresses of love, drugs, travel between New York and Seattle, and health concerns create a strange brew that drives the narrative from beginning to end. Yellow House is a searching, questioning, and introspective depiction of one dimension of LGBTQ culture set in a decade when open discussions of what it was like to “be gay” were only just beginning to seep into mainstream discourse and precisely when the dreaded scourge of AIDS was a constant topic in the news. This reading is open to the public and a reception will follow—location to be announced.