Brother Dumb Author:Sky Gilbert This fictional memoir of a reclusive American literary icon also functions as a how-to manual for meaningful critical engagement with the real world. A celebration of innocence, youth, and altruism, it is a true story of self-imposed exile beginning in the mid-1940s and spanning decades, delving deep into the five tortured relationships that sha... more »ped one writer's psycho-sexual history and detailing his bitter literary decline and withdrawal from public life.« less