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Fresh Men 2: New Voices in Gay Fiction (Fresh Men)

2 reviews

Running Press, 2005

LITERARY LUST
This premier anthology of gay fiction features twenty stories by a diverse collection of new authors who all have one very special thing in common: their ability to shine a new light on upscale gay fiction. In a collection rife with excellence, one is hard pressed to choose a favorite. However, mention must be made of Michael Van Devere's short story "Manboobs", which is a comic collision of ...

dancer from the Dance

32 reviews
Andrew Holleran

Bantam, 1979

Beautiful and Magical
Holleran, Andrew. "Dancer from the Dance", Harper, 1978. Beautiful and Magical Amos Lassen and Literary Pride I usually go back and reread Andrew Holleran every couple of years but this year I could not wait to reread him since he will be the official guest of the Arkansas Literary Festival and my book club, Literary Pride in Little Rock. Turning a spotlight on gay literature in Arkansas ...

Nights in Aruba: A Novel

7 reviews
Andrew Holleran

Harper Perennial, 2001

Looking back
This is a story about Paul, who's looking back on his early years living in Aruba. He's getting older and discovering not only the emptiness of one-night stands, but also that he's not as unlike his parents as he would like. Holleran's sense of wry humor and his astute observations about growing older as a gay man are strong in this work and make it shine. This is a novel about the inner world, ...

Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath

4 reviews
Andrew Holleran

Da Capo Press, 2008

Remembering
Holleran, Andrew. "Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited", De Capo Press, 2008. Remembering Amos Lassen It is always an important day for me when a new Andrew Holleran book comes out. Holleran was the author who introduced me to the world of gay literature and last year I finally had the chance to meet him when my reading group invited him to participate in the Arkansas Literary Festival. He ...

Fresh Men 2 : New Voices in Gay Fiction
Donald Weise

Carroll and Graf, 2005

Fresh Men 2 collects the best new writing by emerging gay authors from around the nation. With equal parts sensitivity and irreverence, the anthology speaks to the broad range of gay experiences. From stories of coming out, coming of age, self-representation and family to sex and love in the time of AIDS, from living in the closet to loving in a post-gay world, this book highlights the complexities of gay life. Fresh Men 2 is a groundbreaking ...

Grief

37 reviews
Andrew Holleran

Hyperion, 2007

Living with the dead in a city of ghosts
In Andrew Holleran's "Grief"--a book that will, I think, be eventually regarded as his masterpiece--there are passages that seem pulled from a Jamesian ghost story. Slim yet fully realized, the novel is set in a tranquil, atmospheric District of Columbia that may as well be a ghost town, a landscape similar to the city eerily described in Gore Vidal's short story "A Moment of Green Laurel." And ...

Men on Men 4: Best New Gay Fiction (Men on Men)

Plume, 1992

Eighteen short stories--by authors such as John Rechy, David Feinberg, Matthew Stadler, and Paul Russell--represent the best of modern gay fiction and address the conflicts and challenges of homosexuality.

In September, the Light Changes: The Stories of Andrew Holleran

18 reviews
Andrew Holleran

Plume, 2000

Light and Dark
I am just as impressed with this book on my second reading as on my first, years earlier: the beauty of the prose, the sharply drawn characters and the sense of reality that the writing imparts. On my second perusal, however, I noticed more strongly, the loneliness and restrained sadness that suffuses nearly all the stories. Andrew re-creates on paper, a homosexual world wherein sex is abundant, ...

Ground Zero

2 reviews
Andrew Holleran

Plume, 1989

Evocative essays on AIDS
This book is at times stunning, at times difficult to read, always worthwhile. It can be compared to David Feinberg's brilliant, scathing "Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone," especially in the hard-hitting gallows humor of the essay "Fashion 1985." These essays are similar to Holleran's effort in the late John Preston's anthology "Personal Dispatches." Although ...

The Beauty of Men: A Novel

31 reviews
Andrew Holleran

Plume, 1997

The Beauty of Feelings
Holleran, Andrew. "The Beauty of Men", Plume Reprint. 1997. The Beauty of Feelings Amos Lassen and Literary Pride I read "The Beauty of Men" when it first came out and I was then reviewing for a paper in New Orleans. I was "wowed" by it and after conducting a phone interview with Andrew Holleran, the author, I found that the book spoke to me even more, Holleran knows how to touch a ...

The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers

6 reviews

Da Capo Press, 2002

The Mysteries of Fathers and Sons
This is a great collection of true stories written by gay men about their relationship with their fathers. Some are mundane, some are shocking, some are tender and some are thought-provoking. It would be great to see a follow-up volume written by not-so-famous gay men, just to see what would result. I suspect the same kind of wisdom, love and heartache would be present. Required reading for ...

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