Deep House

Deep House goes from the penseroso of the best history of marriage equality we have to the allegro of a very hot gay love story told in the funniest, most tender way – Edmund White“Deep House” provides the sublime narrative edifice for, as the subtitle declares, “The Gayest Love Story Ever Told”… Discursive yet rigorous… Atherton Lin’s descriptive powers, salty and sultry, prove inexhaustible… A sensual historian * The New Yorker *(An) epic tale of love and the law… Addressed lovingly to his husband and full of erotic reminiscences, Deep House is Atherton Lin’s attempt to understand their long, transatlantic relationship against a backdrop of the lives and legal cases of those who have come before… Deep House is a living, loving record of their work, and, as the gains they made are being rolled back in Trump’s US, it shows that what is at stake is not merely same-sex marriage but the very idea of home – Diarmud Hester * Observer *A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson… Atherton Lin writes knowing that the history of queer people, as is the case for most marginalized groups, exists between the lines… Backed by a formidable array of sources, he combines the rigorously researched and the deeply personal to implode that gap and fill it with as much detail as possible… Impressive * New York Times *Jeremy Atherton Lin artfully combines easily forgotten social history with vivid, intimate accounts of his own love life… bold and sexy – Shon FayeI love this book’s honesty and originality; the intricacy and intimacy with which it studies the politics of love and desire; its huge brain and dirty, beautiful heart – Chris PowerDeep House is that rare and beautiful book—equally illuminating and pleasurable. Luminous… incisive… transcendently sexy…. It is exactly the book we need right now – Melissa FebosThis important book is about two people looking for home, a shared space and a common nationality, and is a shelter for the most intimate observations of lived experience from diverse political headwinds – MendezStylish, sexy, and deeply moving, this blends beautiful prose and incisive social history to stunning effect * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *

Jeremy Atherton Lin is the author of Gay Bar, a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. His essays appear in numerous places, including the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Yale Review, from which he was anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing. His sound programmes have been broadcast on NTS Radio.