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- Jennifer Egan: The Mary Interview
By: William Johnson
Photo: Heather GreggRecently we asked Mary readers to name their top literary divas – commanding female writers whose temple we gladly worship. It was not shocking that Jennifer Egan’s name came up over and over again. Jennifer Egan is an awe-inspiring voice because she effortlessly manages to be so many things at [...]
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- House Music
A history of urban gay culture can be mapped by simply taking note of what was being played at the dance clubs at any given moment.
Below is a link to a website that offers a vivid, insightful, evocative and personal accounting of the house music scene, and the gay culture that both inspired it and [...]
- Michael Denneny: The Mary Interview
Photo by Khary Simon
Interview by William Johnson
Funny, hyper-intelligent and forthright, Michael Denneny has probably done more for gay publishing then just about anyone.Denneny left academia after getting his PhD in political theory at the University of Chicago (he studied with Hannah Arendt), moved to New York City and quickly dove into the world of book [...]
- NEW MARY! MAY 19th!
Contributors:
Colin Fitzpatrick
Rick Castro
Nicholas Boggs
Curt Weber
Daniel W. K. Lee
Geer Austin
Rod Barry
Heather Gregg
Nodeth Vang
James Magruder
Gregg Shapiro
Douglas A. Martin
Saeed Jones
Frank Lorenz
Gee Henry
Robert Siek
Matthew LeBaron
Aaron Tilford
Black Female Executive
Walter Holland
Elliott D. Breeden
Robert Smith
Khary Simon
Jeffrey Escoffier
Dan Halm
Belasco
Interviews with:
Nick Burd
Vince Aletti
Michael Denneny
Jeffrey Escoffier
Coming at you like a homosexual missile on May 19th!
- Edmund White: The Mary Interview
My friends and I have a snarky name for a sub-species of hyperbolic homosexuals who are always regaling everyone with tales of having participated in every important cultural moment known to man: Pivotal History Queens.
These are the gays who spin tales of escaping the Titanic with Molly Brown, doing acid with Jimi Hendrix at the [...]
- Tony Kushner on Becoming a Writer
Tony Kushner at the Dallas Museum of Art.
- Tom Cardamone : The Mary Interview
Tom Cardamone : The Mary Interview
by William Johnson
In the recently released anthology Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, writer and editor, Tom Cardamone has assembled a stunning collection of essays from 28 contemporary gay writers that examine some truly inspired, but out-of-print, gay books.
Gay authors, including the likes of Paul Russell, Phillip Clark, Larry Duplechan and [...]
- Josh Kilmer-Purcell: The Mary Interview
Drag, Booze and Goats: An Interview with Josh Kilmer-Purcell
By Isaac James Baker
Full disclosure: After I picked up a copy of Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s memoir I Am Not Myself These Days I finished it in two days.
It’s a troubling, dark, yet sharply funny story of a hard-drinking, fucked-up, cocaine-addict-loving drag queen in New York.
Kilmer-Purcell’s prose is disturbing, [...]
- David Bergman Interview
`David Bergman Scholar, Poet, Editor.’
David Bergman created history by writing about it. A leading founder of the Gay Studies movement, Bergman’s rigorous scholarship provided both a historical context and an intellectual critique to the field of gay literature. Gay literature as a genre may seem like a quaint idea today, especially in a world where [...]
