The Loves of My Life

A Sex Memoir

By: Edmund White

Narrated by: Joel Froomkin

Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin.

A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

“In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel.” —John Irving

"A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom." —Robert Jones, Jr.

I’m at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them—for me it would be thousands of sex partners.
The 85-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times) recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys of the 50s Midwest, with women as a young man trying to be straight, the sex he’s paid for and been paid for, sex during the Stonewall and HIV eras, and in the age of the apps. Through tales of transactional sex, mutual admiration, open relationships, domination, submission, love, and loss, he paints an indelible portrait of queer history in America and abroad in a way only someone who has lived through it can.

Written with White’s signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.

©2025 Edmund White (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

A great ode from Edmund

This is a great personal tell all kind of book. If you like White's novels, this will be enjoyable to you. Not hiding behind any characters, Edmund brings us into his honest and true world that is what influences his writing. Raw, direct, sexy, funny. AND the reader was just fantastic.

Entertaining Sexploits

Random and Randy stories of lust, desire and a unique gay life. Some of these stories may be exaggerated, and others embellished, but it’s a ton of fun.

Outstanding narration

There is no one better than Edmund White to write about gay debauchery with such marvelous eloquence. Goodness---who knew c$&ks and holes could sound like fancy dinner table conversation. Narration by Joel Froomkin was absolutely outstanding. He nailed how I would expect Edmund White to sound. Enjoyable tales here cementing some important gay history---good read (not for your mother though).

hmmmm ok, saucy not substantial

I liked it, but I like work by the author. Edmund White is not for everyone, Parts are very spicy and a bit graphic. I like the feel of old New York City

Naughty

It was a fun romp from Mr Whites teensn to his 80's. I highly recommend this book