Tag Archives: Gay
The Soft Machine
by William S. Burroughs“Burroughs voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American, a voice in which one hears transistor radios and old movies and…
The Sex Offender
by Matthew Stadler“Equal parts Kafka, Burgess, and Brazil, Matthew Stadler’s novel is beautifully morbid. The eloquent, florid prose in which Mr. Uh Uh describes his passions…
Querelle
by Jean Genet“Querelle is a sailor, assassin, dealer in opium, homosexual, thief, and traitor. . . . Genet takes seriously the threat latent in sexuality, and…
Period
by Dennis Cooper“A fascinating, intricately crafted jewel of a book . . . It’s a book one could read over and over and never exhaust.” –Dodie…
Our Lady of the Flowers
by Jean Genet“Elegiac elegance, alternately muted, languorous, vituperative, tender, glamorous, bitchy, lush, mockingly feminine, “high camp,” overripe, vigorous, rigorous, exalted. . . . A remarkable achievement.” –The New York Times Book Review…
Nova Express
by William S. Burroughs“Hypnotic; I wish I could quote, but it takes several pages to get high on this stuff. . . . Funny . . ….
Night People
by Barry Gifford“Night People is the work of a talented writer with a strange and original way of looking at the world. . . . The…