Tag Archives: Gay
Miracle of the Rose
by Jean Genet“Genet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something fragile, rare, beautiful.” –The New York Times…
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
by Tom Spanbauer“This brave, original, ribald, funny, heartrending fable about the Old West . . . is a book as bright as it is dark, full…
Low Rent
by Kurt Hollander“A welcome opportunity for book readers to discover the pleasures of a periodical that was to the Reagan-Bush era what Evergreen Review was to…
Love and Death on Long Island
by Gilbert Adair“A very funny portrait of an extraordinarily unworldly academic’s introduction to the dizzyingly incomprehensible realm of popular culture.” –Nick Hornby
Kill Hole
by Jamake Highwater“An extremely literate compelling fiction about timeless human dilemmas. . . . A Native American answer not only to Kafka’s The Trial but Thomas…
Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties
by Allen Ginsberg“Ginsberg has been one of the most influential poets in American in our time. . . . It has been a spectacular career, and…
Indian Journals
by Allen Ginsberg“Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, a con man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since…
In the City of Shy Hunters
by Tom SpanbauerSpanbauer has inserted his character, the Shy Hunter, into the mythology of the real Lower East Side of Manhattan. Surely many will want to follow his steps after reading In the City of Shy Hunters.” –Thomas McGonigle, The Washington Post…
Guide
by Dennis Cooper“The most seductively frightening, best written novel of contemporary urban life that anyone has attempted in a long time; it’s the funniest, too, and…
God Jr.
by Dennis CooperThe boldest step into a new paradigm of narrative I’ve read in a while.” –Jim Krusoe, The Los Angeles Times
