“The diary entries in The Sixties are a mix of quotidian detail, social observation, moody reverie, gossip and self-rebuke.” - Wall Street Journal
“Gossipy, funny, wide-ranging, and revealing…[Isherwood] comes across as approachable, aware, and passionately interested.” - Publishers Weekly
“The Sixties [is] accessible to everyone. . . . A true piece of social history. In these pages you can discover so much—about the Anglo-American community in Los Angeles, about the movies and how they get written, about the emergence of the gay literary movement, about a tormented but eventually triumphant love—and you even get to read a lot of good gossip and scurrilous jokes.” - Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
“An intimate portrait of the life of a beautiful if neurotic mind… streaked with gossip, flinty observations, great good humor and—despite Isherwood’s fundamental discretion—plenty of frank talk.” - Dwight Garner, New York Times
“A good writer…intensely self-aware…a fascinating companion…THE SIXTIES [is] accessible to everyone…a true piece of social history.” - Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
“These diaries are, in their core, a love story, set against a timeline roughly from the Berlin Crisis to the moon landing. While the world changes around them, Isherwood and Bachardy find constancy in each other. And, thanks to the deft record of these diaries, we bear witness to it all—and are all the richer for it.” - New York Journal of Books
“These diaries are, in their core, a love story…thanks to [them], we bear witness to it all—and are all the richer for it.” - New York Journal of Books