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9780231116954

Gay Fiction Speaks

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  • ISBN13:

    9780231116954

  • ISBN10:

    0231116950

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-01
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Summary

Today's most celebrated, prominent, and promising authors of gay fiction in English explore the literary influences and themes of their work in these revealing interviews with Richard Canning. Though the interviews touch upon a wide range of issues -- including gay culture, AIDS, politics, art, and activism -- what truly distinguishes them is the extent to which Canning encourages the authors to reflect on their writing practices, published work, literary forebears, and their writing peers -- gay and straight. Edmund White talks about narrative style and the story behind the cover of A Boy's Own Story. Armistead Maupin discusses his method of writing and how his work has adapted to television. Dennis Cooper thinks about L.A., AIDS, Try, and pop music. Alan Hollinghurst considers structure and point of view in The Folding Star, and why The Swimming-Pool Libraryis exactly 366 pages long. David Leavitt muses on the identity of the gay reader -- and the extent to which that readership defined a tradition. Andrew Holleran wonders how he might have made The Beauty of Men"more forlorn, romantic, lost" by writing in the first person.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
David Bergman
Introduction xvii
James Purdy
1(40)
John Rechy
41(34)
Edmund White
75(38)
Andrew Holleran
113(38)
Armistead Maupin
151(34)
Felice Picano
185(40)
Allan Gurganus
225(36)
Ethan Mordden
261(36)
Dennis Cooper
297(34)
Alan Hollinghurst
331(36)
David Leavitt
367(32)
Patrick Gale
399

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