May-June 2014
“I’VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD why more people don’t love poetry.” These are the very first words in Christopher Hennessy’s collection of interviews with gay male writers, Our Deep Gossip, and they belong to novelist Christopher Bram, who provided the book’s foreword.
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This autobiography comes off rather like the one published in 2010 by France’s gay minister of culture, Frédéric Mitterrand, La Mauvaise Vie (The Bad Life). It left embarrassed readers wondering why Mitterrand would have wanted to present the public with such an unflattering depiction of himself.
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Who Will Die Last? Stories of Life in Israel by David Ehrlich Syracuse Univ. Press. 154 pages, $19.95 STAND IN LINE to enter a movie theater in Israel,…More
Frog Music: A Novel by Emma Donoghue Little, Brown and Company 416 pages, $27. IT CAN BE SOBERING to think that throughout history millions of life stories have been…More
One of the most admirable features of Maupin’s writing is his ability to lead the reader anywhere and make what happens there believable and poignant. Even though strained coincidences and chance encounters permeate The Days of Anna Madrigal and the others in the series, … we willingly surrender to plot and character.
MoreIN THE EARLY 1950s, the New York publishing company Greenberg was convicted of sending obscene materials through the mail. The publishers were fined and the books were effectively banned. The offending texts were three gay novels (none with explicit sexual content): Quatrefoil (1950), by James Barr; The Invisible Glass (1950), by Loren Wahl; and The Divided Path (1949), by Nial Kent.
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MAINE IS the home of choice of young poet Richard Blanco and was the family home of recently deceased gay rights pioneer Sturgis Haskins. Blanco and his partner, Mark, a research scientist, live in the upscale ski resort town of Bethel, in the western part of the state; Haskins, who died in 2012, lived in New York and Boston in his earlier years, but always came back to his hometown of Sorrento, in coastal Maine.
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Reviews of the novel Exception to the Rule, and Lady Gaga’s album Artpop.
MoreKitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America by Kevin Cook W. W. Norton. 288 pages, $25.95 CATHERINE “Kitty” Genovese was a petite, 28-year-old bartender…More
White recounts [his] experience with candor and insight in his new memoir.
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