This program documents artist writers reading their works about AIDS.
Jaime Manrique *
reads an excerpt from his memoir, A Sadness As Deep As The
Sea, about the last days of the Cuban-born Reinaldo Arenas
(19431990): "This plague, AIDS, is but a symptom of
the sickness in our age." SEE TRANSCRIPT
Bea Gates
reads from Triptych: "The pills are supposed to work
better with alcohol. I got some scotch ready; he wouldn't take
it. He was adamant, he wouldn't touch the stuff-said it was hard
enough to get sober and stay sober. I said it wouldn't make any
difference. He insisted on water. I'm exhausted waiting for Charley
to die."
