Hear Us Out

by Canning, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780231128667
• ISBN10: 0231128665
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaksbrings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Outdemonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Readers will recognize names like Michael Cunningham, whose Pulitzer Prize--winning novel The Hoursinspired the hit movie; and others like Christopher Bram, Bernard Cooper, Stephen McCauley, and Matthew Stadler. These accounts explore the vicissitudes of writing on gay male themes in fiction over the last thirty years -- prejudices of the literary marketplace; social and political questions; the impact of AIDS; commonalities between gay male and lesbian fiction... and even some delectable bits of gossip.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Gary Indiana	p. 1
Bernard Cooper	p. 31
Christopher Bram	p. 59
Michael Cunningham	p. 89
Jim Grimsley	p. 115
Stephen McCauley	p. 145
Colm Toibin	p. 169
Paul Russell	p. 203
Peter Cameron	p. 233
Matthew Stadler	p. 259
Philip Hensher	p. 293
Dale Peck	p. 327
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