Q&A: PW TALKS WITH WALT ODETS: Order a Case of Kleenex and Write the Goddamn Book.

An interview with Walt Odets, author of the book "Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives," is presented. Topics discussed include the relation of the book to his first book "In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS," the reason he included a biography of one of his lovers, Matthias Johnson, at the end of the book, and the differences between the terms gay and homosexual.