# Thomas Mallon on the Early Days of the HIV/AIDS Crisis

Novelist Thomas Mallon talked about his recently-published book,”The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994″ with Clay Smith. In 2022, The New Yorker published a selection of Mallon’s diaries from the early days of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The response was immense. The Library holds Mallon’s personal archives, including his diaries, book and article drafts, research files, and correspondence.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 42 min
- By: Mallon, Thomas
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10764/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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