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Zak Salih Talks About His New Intergenerational Gay Novel, ‘Let’s Get Back to the Party’ I vow, henceforth, to live by cock alone. This is certainly the most among many memorable lines from Let’s Get Back to the Party, the debut novel from late-thirtysomething Washington, D.C.–based writer Zak Salih. Gossipy and full of the energy of contemporary, pre-COVID urban gay life (hookup app foreplay, same-sex weddings, and sometimes awkward cocktail outings), the novel is underscored with themes of loneliness, shame, and longing. Its story bounces between Sebastian and Oscar, two middle-class thirtysomething gay men who’ve become estranged after an intense childhood friendship. Sebastian, a brooding high school art-history teacher of half-Arab descent, becomes obsessed with his openly gay student, while white Oscar, an embittered, hookup-crazy marketing writer, attaches himself to an Edmund White–like older gay literary writer whose books recount the hedonism of the 1970s

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