Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Gambone’s questions to beyond the obvious, exploring how it really feels to be an openly gay man writing at the end of the 20th century and in the age of AIDS."—
Q SyndicateSynopsis
In the last twenty years, gay literature has earned a place at the American and British literary tables, spawning its own constellation of important writers and winning a dedicated audience. No one, though, until Philip Gambone, has attempted to offer a collective portrait of our most important gay fiction writers. This selection of interviews attempts just that and is notable both for the depth of Gambone’s probing conversations and for the sheer range of important authors included.
Allen Barnett
Christopher Bram
Peter Cameron
Bernard Cooper
Dennis Cooper
Michael Cunningham
Brad Gooch
Joseph Hansen
Scott Heim
Andrew Holleran
Alan Hollinghurst
Brian Keith Jackson
Randall Kenan
David Leavitt
Michael Lowenthal
Paul Monette
Michael Nava
David Plante
John Preston
Lev Raphael
Edmund White
About the Author
Philip Gambone is an award-winning essayist, journalist, and fiction writer living in Boston. He teaches writing at Harvard University. His previous work includes a book of stories,
The Language We Use Up Here. He is the author of a novel,
Beijing, also published by the Press. Robert Giard contributed photos of sixteen of the writers interviewed.