Here's what we'll say.

History is always written by the victors, but now you can hear the other side of the story. In A Fictional History of the United States: With Huge Chunks Missing (Akashic), T Cooper and Adam Mansbach have edited a collection of groundbreaking fictional accounts of some of the country's funniest and most obscure lore. The Way We Were: Remembering Diana (William Morrow) is an intimate look into the life of the princess by her faithful butler and longtime confidant, Paul Burrell. Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (New Directions), featuring an introduction by John Waters leads us firsthand into the thoughts of the playwright and author. Former Cornell professor Scott McMillin argues that musical theater deserves the same critical attention as opera and the works of Chekhov in The Musical as Drama (Princeton). Actor John Carlyle is known primarily as the sometime lover of Judy Garland, but his book Under the Rainbow: An Intimate Memoir of Judy Garland, Rock Hudson and My Life in Old Hollywood (Carroll and Graf) is more than a kiss and tell: It's a treasure trove of gay Tinseltown secrets. The original friend of Dorothy sleeps with Marion Brando and James Dean and gives a blow-by-blow of old Hollywood's decline. Allen Ginsberg's The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952 (Da Capo) is so candid that he insisted it be published after his death. The book captures the spirit of the iconoclastic beat generation. Gay Life and Culture: A World History (Universe) exhaustingly chronicles same-sex relationships from anthropological to artistic representations with textbook accuracy. The influence of Hollywood's original fashion icon is examined in Cary Grant: A Celebration of Style (Bulfinch). Two compelling rock chronologies, Pet Shop Boys: Catalogue (Thames and Hudson) and U2 by U2 (HarperCollins), capture the seminal bands' histories and influences through photographs. Finally, Here's What We'll Say (Carroll and Graf) is everything you ever wanted to know about Reichen Lehmkuhl before Lance. The Amazing Race winner details his life as a closeted Air Force captain, including a graphic account of his rape by fellow soldiers.