| Jeremy Atherton Lin | |
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 Atherton Lin at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2021 | |
| Occupation | Author and essayist |
| Nationality | American |
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| Notable works | Gay Bar: Why We Went Out |
| Notable awards | National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography |
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| jeremyathertonlin | |
Jeremy Atherton Lin is an American essayist known for writing about gay culture and alienation. He is the author of the cultural memoir Gay Bar. In 2022, it was announced that his second book Deep House examines the subject of same-sex marriage and immigration.
Life and work
Atherton Lin was raised in Saratoga, California. He attended Lynbrook High School and graduated from the theater department at UCLA. He served as the inaugural Editorial Director of Surface Magazine, which was then based in San Francisco. After moving to the UK, he obtained the MA in Writing at the Royal College of Art in London.
Atherton Lin's debut book Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (2021) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. It was included in The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021.
Atherton Lin's essay ‘The Wrong Daddy’ was a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the first-ever such nomination for a piece published by The Yale Review in its two-centuries-plus history. Atherton Lin profiled non-binary celebrities Sam Smith, Bimini Bon-Boulash and Mae Martin for British editions of GQ, traditionally a men’s magazine. He has published essays and reviews in publications including The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Face and Index Magazine. He wrote the cover feature on Wolfgang Tillmans for the September 2022 issue of Frieze in advance of the artist’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
In 2022, Atherton Lin was featured in artist Every Ocean Hughes's durational performance at the Moderna Museet. His sound essays have been broadcast by NTS Radio.
Atherton Lin lives in St Leonards-on-Sea, England and Glendale, California.
Bibliography
- Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Little, Brown, 2021, ISBN 9780316458757
- Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Granta, 2021, ISBN 9781783785834
- Gay Bar: Perché Uscivamo La Notte, Minimum Fax, 2023, ISBN 9788833894614
Essays
- ‘Death in the Age of Instagram,’ 2018, Noon
- ‘A Good Old-Fashioned Hit of Poppers,’ 2020, The Times Literary Supplement
- ‘The Wrong Daddy,’ 2021, The Yale Review, included in The Best American Magazine Writing 2022, Columbia University Press, 2022, ISBN 9780231208901
- ‘A Brief Literary History of Gay and Lesbian Bars,’ 2021, Literary Hub
- ‘Their Tenderest Yearnings of Affection,’ 2021, Fantastic Man
- ‘Fun,’ included in Sluts (Ed. Michelle Tea), Dopamine, 2024, ISBN 9781635902129
- ‘Snob Queer,’ included in A Great Gay Book (Ed. Ryan Fitzgibbon), Abrams Books, 2024, ISBN 9781419766787
References
- "Author Jeremy Atherton Lin On His Lifelong Love Affair With Gay Bars". www.culturedmag.com.
- "Gay Bars: Jeremy Atherton Lin's New Book Explores Why We Went Out". AnOther. March 3, 2021.
- "'There's Been a Kind of Erasure of the Pervert': An Interview with Jeremy Atherton Lin". Hazlitt. February 11, 2021.
- "In Conversation". March 12, 2021.
- Laing, Olivia (December 10, 2015). "A Year in Reading: Olivia Laing". The Millions.
- "Bestsellers List Sunday, June 12". Yahoo News. 8 June 2022.
- "Bestsellers List Sunday, July 17". Los Angeles Times. July 13, 2022.
- "Allen Lane bags exploration of same-sex marriage from Atherton Lin in six-way auction". The Bookseller.
- Adler, Dahlia (June 30, 2022). "June 2022 Deal Announcements". LGBTQ Reads.
- "StackPath". xtramagazine.com. 22 February 2021.
- "Jeremy Atherton Lin on making writing tangible". RCA Website.
- Kirch, Claire. "NBCC Awards 2022: Moving Forward With An Eye to the Past". PublishersWeekly.com.
- "Times Critics' Top Books of 2021". The New York Times. December 15, 2021 – via NYTimes.com.
- Rubin, Peter (February 25, 2022). "All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards". Longreads.
- ^ "Humanitas: Centering East Asian studies, reveling in Parisian cathedrals". YaleNews. March 6, 2023.
- "Awards and Accolades". The Yale Review.
- Chilcott, Joely (September 28, 2022). "Sam Smith Has Grown in Confidence: "I've Got Loads of Wonderful Romantic Attention"". POPSUGAR Celebrity UK.
- "Bimini Bon Boulash Covers 'GQ,' Explains Breaking Up With Partner". www.out.com.
- "Feel Good star Mae Martin opens up about their non-binary journey: "I just feel like myself"". GAY TIMES. June 13, 2022.
- Novak, Kim (June 7, 2022). "Mae Martin hits back at criticism for talking about gender identity".
- "Issue 229: out now - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com.
- Backström, Valerie Kyeyune (March 31, 2022). "GAY In All Caps".
- Kirichanskaya, Michele (October 14, 2021). "Interview with Jeremy Atherton Lin".
- "Things I Read That I Loved #325: Like a Hippie Van Collided With a Paint Factory". March 18, 2022.