Encounters with Men

Encounters With Men is a searching memoir as only Bob Ostertag could tell it. In these pages are a lifetime of intimacies and distances, moments with fathers and teachers, friends and lovers, soldiers, cops, and criminals--even one of the great mass murderers of the late twentieth century. Bob Ostertag writes of the men he has known in stories shot through with deep love and deep violence, sex often at the core. Here, we encounter the worst of the AIDS epidemic and the best of human behavior. Fittingly, the final encounter occurs exclusively online, a stark yet compelling portrait of the new sex work in the digital age. Like encounters with bears, except with men.

Bob Ostertag is an American writer, musician, film maker, and activist whose work cannot easily be summarized or pigeonholed. His writings on contemporary politics have been published on every continent and in many languages, beginning with his work as a journalist covering the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s. His books cover topics ranging from labor unions to the history of estrogen and testosterone. His writing has won the ＂ Most Censored Story of the Year＂ award from Project Censored and the ＂ Most Important Book of the Year’ ’ designation from The Nation magazine.