Best American gay fiction 1996 / edited by Brian Bouldrey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©1996.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 318 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0316103209
  • 9780316103206
  • 0316103179
  • 9780316103176
ISSN:
  • 1088-5501
Other title:
  • Subsequently referred to as: Best American gay fiction 1
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.01083538/086642 23
LOC classification:
  • PS648.H57 B45 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
"His Biographer," from Skinned Alive / Edmund White -- "Split Lip," from Queer View Mirror / Jim Provenzano -- "I Am Making a Mistake," from Walking on Air / R. S. Jones -- "The Wedding Dress," from His / Jason K. Friedman -- "Don't or Stop," from Mysterious Skin / Scott Heim -- "Banking Hours," from Does Freddy Dance / Dick Scanlan -- "The Early Worm," from Contact, the 114th Annual Exhibition of the Walter/McBean Gallery / Robert Gl?ck -- "Monologue of Triste the Contortionist," from The James White Review / Ernesto Mestre -- "On the Mound," from Dream Boy / Jim Grimsley -- "The Medicine Burns," from The Medicine Burns / Adam Klein -- "Allan Stein," from In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice / Matthew Stadler -- "Posterity," from Father of Frankenstein / Christopher Bram -- "Arson," from His / Bernard Cooper -- "The Spanking," from Mirage/Period(ical) / Joe Westmoreland -- "Going Away," from Flesh and the Word 3 / Michael Lowenthal -- "After the Change," from Modern Words / JL Schneider -- "Distortion," from Men's Style / Stephen Beachy -- "ghosts, pockets, traces, necessary clouds," from Pen N Sword / Aldo Alvarez -- "Running Shoes," from Christopher Street / Rick Barrett -- "Hot Lights," from Gerbil / Kevin Killian -- "Cassandra," from Flesh and Blood / Michael Cunningham.
Summary: "Drawing on stories published in both mainstream and alternative magazines and excerpts from published novels, this breakthrough anthology presents the best of 1995's gay fiction--and some of the most remarkable writing in America today. By turns experimental, provocative, poignant, and nostalgic, these stories--which bring to life porn actors and political dissidents, transsexuals and teenage girls, men dying of AIDS and boys coming of age, drag queens and straight parents, call boys and closet cases--are unified not only by their excellence but by the risks they take. Together they form a community, a rich confederacy of voices that reflects the diversity of gay life today."--P. [4] of cover.
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Book Book Stonewall Storage FIC BES 1996 2 box #42 Storage autographed by multiple contributors 49832

Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. 310-314.

"His Biographer," from Skinned Alive / Edmund White -- "Split Lip," from Queer View Mirror / Jim Provenzano -- "I Am Making a Mistake," from Walking on Air / R. S. Jones -- "The Wedding Dress," from His / Jason K. Friedman -- "Don't or Stop," from Mysterious Skin / Scott Heim -- "Banking Hours," from Does Freddy Dance / Dick Scanlan -- "The Early Worm," from Contact, the 114th Annual Exhibition of the Walter/McBean Gallery / Robert Gl?ck -- "Monologue of Triste the Contortionist," from The James White Review / Ernesto Mestre -- "On the Mound," from Dream Boy / Jim Grimsley -- "The Medicine Burns," from The Medicine Burns / Adam Klein -- "Allan Stein," from In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice / Matthew Stadler -- "Posterity," from Father of Frankenstein / Christopher Bram -- "Arson," from His / Bernard Cooper -- "The Spanking," from Mirage/Period(ical) / Joe Westmoreland -- "Going Away," from Flesh and the Word 3 / Michael Lowenthal -- "After the Change," from Modern Words / JL Schneider -- "Distortion," from Men's Style / Stephen Beachy -- "ghosts, pockets, traces, necessary clouds," from Pen N Sword / Aldo Alvarez -- "Running Shoes," from Christopher Street / Rick Barrett -- "Hot Lights," from Gerbil / Kevin Killian -- "Cassandra," from Flesh and Blood / Michael Cunningham.

"Drawing on stories published in both mainstream and alternative magazines and excerpts from published novels, this breakthrough anthology presents the best of 1995's gay fiction--and some of the most remarkable writing in America today. By turns experimental, provocative, poignant, and nostalgic, these stories--which bring to life porn actors and political dissidents, transsexuals and teenage girls, men dying of AIDS and boys coming of age, drag queens and straight parents, call boys and closet cases--are unified not only by their excellence but by the risks they take. Together they form a community, a rich confederacy of voices that reflects the diversity of gay life today."--P. [4] of cover.

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