White lives in West Hollywood with his boyfriend, the Morocco Mole, and is locally esteemed as the ‘King of Pancakes.2018 marks the 25th anniversary of Liz Phair’s landmark Exile in Guyville album. His reviews and features have been seen in E! Online, IFILM, LA Weekly, Dallas Observer, Instinct, The Advocate, Glue, Cybersocket, Total Movie, Unzipped, and Frontiers. ‘They requested more fashion and skin care features in its place, which makes me kind of proud.’ĭave White is a freelance journalist specializing in music. What began as weekly diaries emailed to out of state family and friends evolved into a blog called ‘Dave White Knows’ and in 2003 became a monthly column in Instinct called ‘ Exile in Guyville.’ Alyson Books now presents White’s blogs in expanded form with loads of new material that will be even more irritating to the Instinct readers who didn’t like his column. White gets gigs as a freelance writer, goes to the grocery store where his Russian neighbors ask him questions because they think he’s from the old country and encounters Sara Gilbert at the Laundromat, Leonard Maltin at the movies, and Ben Affleck driving a Rolls Royce so ridiculously conspicuous he might as well be driving Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang. White explores his neighborhood ? ‘queens: 6 percent cranky 70 year old Russians who give you the evil eye when you walk past: 2 percent blonde girls with big, round, hard fakeys who think Jennifer Anniston just got lucky: 10 percent miscellaneous cool kids, hustlers, and actual crazy people: 5 percent.’ Here’s the diary of a man who in mid life found himself uprooted and dumped into West Hollywood, an unfamiliar place not exactly known for stability. He ll discover that old family secrets still have the power to kill in this razor sharp PI story that makes classic noir new again. Now he needs to figure out how a hit man, crooked cops, corrupt politics, a kidnapping, and the city of Bayonne all fit together. All Donne wants is to disappear preferably into a nice frosty pint glass but he soon realizes that his only chance at saving his family, and himself, is by solving a mystery more than sixty years old. Meanwhile, Donne s relatives are suddenly being greeted by blackmail, car bombs, and bullets to the back of the skull.

Turns out Donne s Alzheimer s stricken mother has begun hinting at long buried family secrets from her hospital bed, suggesting a sinister even murderous past. Then the bottom really falls out: The sister he hasn t seen in years shows up, needing help. Stripped of his private investigator’s license and slumming it as a night security guard at a Jersey storage facility, Jackson Donne thinks he s finally hit rock bottom. Even generations later, you can’t escape…

Exile in Guyville by Dave White