"I Can Give You Anything But Love" is the just-published memoir from novelist, playwright, critic, artist and all-around caustic wit Gary Indiana. If you know his work, you know you're in for a bumpy ride.

At first we weren't sure we would enjoy reading "Worlds Apart: A Memoir" (Bloomsbury) from the novelist David Plante. Our highest criterion for art or literature is that it moves us, and this memoir is moving indeed.

Summer is breezy and cool in San Francisco, but Out There spent last week sweltering as if under a Sahara sun as we read "The Obelisk and the Englishman - The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes."