Ricky Ian Gordon's Memoir - Seeing Through

I just finished reading Ricky Ian Gordon's new memoir 'Seeing Through' which came out last month. (Ricky came out much earlier). He is one of the most important American opera composers in the current renaissance in the art form which has been going on through the early decades of the 21st century. It's part St. Augustine's Confessions, part family drama, part backstage look at the opera world and the creative process. I was familiar with many of the key points having read Donald Katz's Home Fires - a look at the cultural changes of post war America through the lens of a single family - the Gordons of Harbor Isle Long Island whose four children ended up being everywhere and working with or knowing pretty much anyone of importance in the 60s and 70s. It's not particularly dishy but he does capture the more difficult parts of Sondheim's temperament. Some interesting glimpses into gay life pre HIV and just what a devastation the disease wreaked upon the arts world.