Remember Me (Paperback), Bo Huston & Dan Carmell

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Remember Me
Paperback – November 11, 2025
by Bo Huston, with an introduction by Dan Carmell

“I have not chosen to be ill, I don’t think, but in a curious way I have decided to spend my time wishing I lived some other place, had some other life. Always just slightly discontented, searching for safety, and remembering.”

When Remember Me was first published in 1991, Bo Huston was already confronting his own mortality. Diagnosed with HIV in 1988, Huston wrote with the urgency of a man aware that time was running short. His narrator—a gay writer wrestling with illness, memory, and the quiet rhythms of small-town life—finds solace in Charlotte, a loyal friend whose constancy anchors his unraveling world. Together, they create a fragile sanctuary amid the devastation of the AIDS crisis.

Written in prose both lyrical and unsparing, Remember Me distills the ache of queer survival into a work of piercing emotional clarity. It is a story of chosen family, enduring love, and the restless search for meaning in the face of death.

Bo Huston (1959–1993) was a journalist, playwright, and three-time Lambda Literary Award nominee. Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, he later moved to San Francisco, where he became an active voice in the city’s queer literary scene. As his health declined, Huston arranged his own death in May 1993 at the age of 33—an act of autonomy and peace. His brief but extraordinary career produced two novels and two short story collections that remain vital documents of courage and compassion from one of the darkest chapters in queer history.