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- David Groff: The Mary Interview
I love when an interview turns into a master class. My interview with queer poet/writer/editor David Groff was both extraordinarily engaging and edifying.
A trail blazer for queer writing and more recently a torch bearer for aspects of queer writing that are too vital and magnificent to be lost; David has provided an impassioned and [...]
- A Book for Gay Music Nerds: THE DISCO FILES 1973-78 by VINCE ALETTI
In 1979, at the grand old age of six I threw a hissy fit because my older sister could disco dance better than me. My family often met in the living room and danced to whatever my father, an avid record collector, put on the stereo. It was Minne Riperton’s “Dancing and Acting Crazy” that [...]
- The Depressing Media Landscape
By Richard Perez Pena (via nytimes)
Washington Blade and several other gay newspapers and magazines around the country learned on Monday that they had been shut down after a federal agency that oversaw them was unable to find buyers for them.The abrupt closing of The Blade and several other gay newspapers stunned their employees.
The Blade, founded [...]
- The Gay Porn Memoir
Oh Malachi!
The memoir is a common conceit in gay male literature. It’s themes often provide universal touchstones for which gay readers can relate.
Whether it be the trauma of coming out to your family, awkwardly learning how to shave your pubic hair or performing sodomy for the very first time, a good memoir often provides the [...]
- How to Write a Great Novel
So just how do you go about writing that GREAT NOVEL the world is clamoring for?
The Wall Street Journal recently asked a series of well regarded authors that very question (Junot Diaz, Kazou Ishiguro, Richard Powers).
The article provides a humorous examination into how these steely minds go about the business of turning out [...]
- Notes on Camp
The experiences of Camp are based on the great discovery that the sensibility of high culture has no monopoly upon refinement. Camp asserts that good taste is not simply good taste; that there exists, indeed, a good taste of bad taste. (Genet talks about this in Our Lady of the Flowers.) The discovery of [...]
- Dennis Cooper: The Mary Interview
Rigorous Pornography: A Conversation with Dennis Cooper
by Colin Fitzpatrick
I first learned about Dennis Cooper’s work when a brief summer fling lent me Guide, one of the novels in his George Miles Cycle, the body of work made Cooper a recognizable name in queer and transgressive literature. The visions of gore, pornography, and destructive desires in [...]
