Rick Whitaker is author of "Assuming the Position: A Memoir of Hustling" (1999), "The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara: Reading Gay American Writers" (2004), and "An Honest Ghost," a novel published by Jaded Ibis Press in 2013. He is Theater and Concerts Manager at Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in New York City and editor of ExquisitePandemic.com, a free online literary arts journal.