I'll Just Do It Until I Need Glasses, Okay?

I've been reading more lately, which means less writing. Ah well.I just finished Nick Burd's young-adult novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary (Dial Books, 2009), which has been much praised and deserves it. (Calling it young-adult is not a putdown -- a lot of the best recent gay fiction has been in that niche.) It's the story of an eighteen-year-old gay boy in Iowa, getting through his last