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John Weir



John Weir (born 8 February 1959 in Tarrytown, New York) is an American writer. He is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (HarperCollins, 1989), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction at the 2nd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990, and for which he received an NEA Fellowship in Fiction in 1991; and What I Did Wrong (Viking, 2006).

In the early 1990s, he was a Contributing Editor at Details; and he has published nonfiction in The New York Times, Spin, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. His short fiction has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, Subtropics, and elsewhere.

In 1991, in conjunction with ACT UP New York's Day of Desperation action to draw attention to government and media neglect of
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Average rating: 3.99 · 373 ratings · 69 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Irreversible Decline of...

4.12 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions
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‎Your Nostalgia is Killing Me

4.08 avg rating — 129 ratings2 editions
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What I Did Wrong: A Novel

3.75 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
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