The Estate Project's anthology Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS, edited by Edmund White, was published in 2001 by University of Wisconsin Press. Twenty-three contributions by some of America's leading writers range from poems to intensely personal memoires to critical essays, together forming a nuanced though emotionally direct gesture toward the creative void left by the AIDS crisis. You can purchase Loss within Loss at your local bookstore or online through the University of Wisconsin Press.

"A searing, and often bitingly funny collection of personal essays by almost two dozen writersJohn Berendt, Brad Gooch, Allan Gurganus, and Sarah Schulman among themLoss within Loss remembers over twenty creative artists lost to AIDS in the past twenty years, including poet James Merrill, filmmaker Derek Jarman, and painter and writer David Wojnarowicz...A reflective, self-possessed, and frequently inspiring testimonial, benefiting from the perspective that only time provides.”
David Bahr, The Advocate

Read excerpts from Loss within Loss:

• Introduction: "The American Sublime: Living and Dying As an Artist" by Edmund White


• "Homage to Joe" by Keith McDermott


• "The Art of Losing" by Andrew Solomon


• "After Peter" by Alexander Chee


• "Warren Sonbert" by Phillip Lopate


• "Through the Looking Glass" by Sarah Schulman