Tag Archives: Gay
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…
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs“A book of great beauty . . . . Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.”…
