Jeremy Atherton Lin

Atherton Lin was raised in Saratoga, California. He attended Lynbrook High School and graduated from the theater department at UCLA.{{Cite web|url=https://xtramagazine.com/culture/gay-bar-queer-social-spaces-atherton-lin-195539|title=StackPath|website=xtramagazine.com|date=22 February 2021 }} He served as the inaugural Editorial Director of Surface Magazine, which was then based in San Francisco. After moving to the UK, he obtained the MA in Writing at the Royal College of Art in London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/jeremy-atherton-lin-on-making-writing-tangible/|title=Jeremy Atherton Lin on making writing tangible|website=RCA Website}}

Atherton Lin's debut book Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (2021) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/88808-nbcc-awards-2022-moving-forward-with-an-eye-to-the-past.html|title=NBCC Awards 2022: Moving Forward With An Eye to the Past|first=Claire|last=Kirch |website=PublishersWeekly.com}} It was included in The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/critics-top-books-2021.html|title=Times Critics' Top Books of 2021|work=The New York Times |date=December 15, 2021|via=NYTimes.com}}

In Deep House (2025), Atherton Lin recounts his transnational relationship before the legalization of same-sex marriage or immigration concessions for binational gay couples.{{Cite news|url=https://people.com/gay-bar-author-jeremy-atherton-lin-announces-new-book-exclusive-8714865|title=Critically Acclaimed Author of Gay Bar Has a New Book Coming: 'We Defied the Law in Order to Stay Together' (Exclusive)|work=People |date=September 19, 2024|via=people.com}} The book was listed among the Top 10 Memoirs & Biographies in the Publishers Weekly Spring 2025 Preview.{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/96682-spring-2025-fiction-nonfiction-preview-memoirs-biographies.html|title=Spring 2025 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Memoirs & Biographies|work=PW |date=December 6, 2024|via=publishersweekly.com}}

Atherton Lin's essay ‘The Wrong Daddy’ was a finalist for a National Magazine Award,{{Cite web|url=http://longreads.com/2022/02/25/all-the-stories-nominated-for-the-2022-national-magazine-awards/|title=All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards|first=Peter|last=Rubin|date=February 25, 2022|website=Longreads}} the first-ever such nomination for a piece published by The Yale Review in its two-centuries-plus history.{{Cite web|url=https://news.yale.edu/2023/03/06/humanitas-centering-east-asian-studies-reveling-parisian-cathedrals|title=Humanitas: Centering East Asian studies, reveling in Parisian cathedrals|date=March 6, 2023|website=YaleNews}}{{Cite web|url=https://yalereview.org/about/awards-and-accolades|title=Awards and Accolades|website=The Yale Review}} Atherton Lin profiled non-binary celebrities Sam Smith, Bimini Bon-Boulash and Mae Martin for British editions of GQ, traditionally a men’s magazine.{{Cite web|url=https://www.popsugar.co.uk/node/48963385|title=Sam Smith Has Grown in Confidence: "I've Got Loads of Wonderful Romantic Attention"|first=Joely|last=Chilcott|date=September 28, 2022|website=POPSUGAR Celebrity UK}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.out.com/drag/2022/4/14/bimini-bon-boulash-covers-gq-explains-breaking-partner|title=Bimini Bon Boulash Covers 'GQ,' Explains Breaking Up With Partner|website=www.out.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/television/feel-good-star-mae-martin-opens-up-about-their-non-binary-journey-i-just-feel-like-myself/|title=Feel Good star Mae Martin opens up about their non-binary journey: "I just feel like myself"|date=June 13, 2022|website=GAY TIMES}}{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/07/mae-martin-hits-back-at-criticism-for-talking-about-gender-identity-16786901/|title=Mae Martin hits back at criticism for talking about gender identity|first=Kim|last=Novak|date=June 7, 2022}} He has published essays in The Paris Review and the Times Literary Supplement, and reviewed new fiction for The Guardian and The Washington Post. He wrote the cover feature on Wolfgang Tillmans for the September 2022 issue of Frieze in advance of the artist’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.{{Cite web|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/487624/issue-229-out-now/|title=Issue 229: out now - Announcements - e-flux|website=www.e-flux.com}}

In 2022, Atherton Lin was featured in artist Every Ocean Hughes's durational performance at the Moderna Museet.{{Cite web|url=https://kunstkritikk.com/death-to-your-binary|title=GAY In All Caps|first=Valerie Kyeyune|last=Backström|date=March 31, 2022}} His sound essays have been broadcast by NTS Radio.{{Cite web|url=https://www.geeksout.org/2021/10/14/interview-with-jeremy-atherton-lin/|title=Interview with Jeremy Atherton Lin|first=Michele|last=Kirichanskaya|date=October 14, 2021}}

Atherton Lin lives in St Leonards-on-Sea, England and Glendale, California.{{cn|date=April 2023}}

• Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told, Little, Brown, 2025, {{ISBN|978-0316545792}}
• Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told, Allen Lane/Penguin, 2025, {{ISBN|978-0241629789}}
• Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Little, Brown, 2021, {{ISBN|9780316458757}}
• Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Granta, 2021, {{ISBN|9781783785834}}
• Gay Bar: Perché Uscivamo La Notte, Minimum Fax, 2023, {{ISBN|9788833894614}}
• Gay Bar: Pourquoi nous sortions le soir, Tusitala Editions, 2024, {{ISBN|9791092159349}}

• ‘Death in the Age of Instagram,’ 2018, Noon
• ‘A Good Old-Fashioned Hit of Poppers,’ 2020, The Times Literary Supplement
• ‘The Wrong Daddy,’ 2021, The Yale Review,{{Cite web|url=https://www.autostraddle.com/things-i-read-that-i-loved-325-like-a-hippie-van-collided-with-a-paint-factory/|title=Things I Read That I Loved #325: Like a Hippie Van Collided With a Paint Factory|date=March 18, 2022}} included in The Best American Magazine Writing 2022, Columbia University Press, 2022, {{ISBN|9780231208901}}
• ‘A Brief Literary History of Gay and Lesbian Bars,’ 2021, Literary Hub
• ‘Their Tenderest Yearnings of Affection,’ 2021, Fantastic Man
• ‘Fun,’ included in Sluts (Ed. Michelle Tea), Dopamine, 2024, {{ISBN|9781635902129}}
• ‘Snob Queer,’ included in A Great Gay Book (Ed. Ryan Fitzgibbon), Abrams Books, 2024, {{ISBN|9781419766787}}
• 'Renting,' included in Little Joe: a book about queers and cinema, mostly, 2024, {{ISBN|978-1739606763}}

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