Tag Archives: Gay
Gold by the Inch
by Lawrence Chua“A sparse, fragmented style which sometimes resembles the gliding, poetic prose of Marguerite Duras . . . The author’s real talent is to lay…
Frisk
by Dennis Cooper“Frisk is a significant work of fiction. Cooper . . . wants to lead us into the wormy heart of the murderous impulse.” –Michael Cunningham, author of A Home at the End of the World…
Funeral Rites
by Jean Genet“Funeral Rites is quite possibly an evil book. It is clearly a brilliant book, . . . a seminal document in the development of…
Faggots
by Larry Kramer“Writing as always from an affirmatively homosexual point of view, Kramer in this novel conveys a sense of premonitory unease, even foreboding, about the…
Equal Affections
by David Leavitt“A gritty, passionate novel . . . [Leavitt] has written from the point of view of a raging, self-dramatizing mother with clarity and with…
Eighty-Sixed
by David B. Feinberg“Wickedly fun . . . [Eighty-Sixed] stands out for its frankness, ferocious wit and total lack of sentimentality or self-pity. . . . A…
The Doorman
by Reinaldo Arenas‘reinaldo Arenas is a writer of tremendous talent; he is a force of nature, someone born to write.” –Jose Lezama Lima
The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee
by Matthew Stadler“This gorgeously fateful story inflicts an extra pang by inviting us to contemplate the loss of youth, a loss that comes irreversibly, from inside.”…
The Cutting Room
by Louise Welsh“The Cutting Room fixes itself among a formidable modern pantheon that includes the novels of Ian McEwan and A. L. Kennedy. . . ….
