JD by Mark Merlis Published by University of Wisconsin Press Published March 24, 2015 Fiction 272 pgs. Find on Amazon.com • WorldCat Reviewed by Stephen O. Murray April 22, 2016. Mark Merlis’s fourth novel returns to “the bad old days” (before gay liberation) of his first novel, American Studies. Like American Studies, JD centers on a fictionalized version of a real-life literary … Continue reading “JD” is a return to the bad old days