![]() He grew up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts and lives in New York City. John Glynn is an editor at Hanover Square Press, an imprint of HarperCollins. He was falling in love with a fellow a housemate, Matt. And John was, for the first time, confronting his sexuality. D.Lo and Everett found love and Mike and Shane’s relationship was about to implode. Ashley was so choked with insecurity that she brought her hair straightener to the bar. Colby’s mother was diagnosed with cancer. John writes with affection and honesty about the ensemble of people who called The Hive home that summer. But friendships, conflicts, secrets and epiphanies blossomed within their tightly woven group. On the surface, the housemates seemed polished and unflappable. Rather than an escape hatch, the Hive became a locus of reckoning. On a winding hill sat a ramshackle split-level, where John and thirty-one friends would sleep, drink, party, and fall in and out of love. ![]() Montauk was nicknamed The End of the World, a surfer’s haven at the tip of the Hamptons, just a three-hour train ride from the city. When he was asked to join a share house in Montauk for the summer with a few dozen people, most of whom were strangers, John he viewed it as a potential escape hatch from his increasingly dark feelings. He had a great editorial job at a prestigious New York publisher. ![]() ![]() Something was wrong but he didn’t know what. At 27, John Glynn lay awake at night, consumed by a pressing loneliness, a feeling he carried with him for as long as he could remember. ![]()
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