Born in 1951 in small-town Iowa, Randy Shilts was his alcoholic, abusive mother’s third of six sons. Frustrated, drunk, she reportedly beat Shilts almost daily when he was young; she also called him a ...
In the front of the fluorescent-lit interior classroom, Andrea Parks read aloud from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, stopping frequently to question her students: what did we just read? What ...