James Magruderās short story collection, Let Me See It, is exceptional.Ā Mr. Magruder is a master at dialogue.Ā His stories are perfectly constructed.Ā And he has a literary style that is all his own:Ā minimalist, yet peppered with telling
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Bernardine Evaristoās novel, Mr. Loverman is the story of Barrington:Ā a septuagenarian West Indian man who has finally reached the decision to come out as gay.Ā His ever-shifting, highly complex situation is told from the perspectives of both Barrington and
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In the twelve stories comprising Michael Carrollās Little Reef, the qualities which make him a major new literary talent are on display.Ā Mr. Carroll is a master at dialogue, his characters are three-dimensional and he clearly knows how to
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Near the beginning of Michael Cunninghamās new novel, one of the main characters has a potentially life-changing experience:Ā a seemingly celestial being appears to him in the sky above Central Park.Ā What ever this white light cloud formation is, it
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Concluding the Tales of the City series was perhaps Armistead Maupinās most challenging literary task.Ā Concluding an epic novelālet alone a series of novelsāinvolves not only revisiting the key characters and wrapping up their stories, but also the inclusion of
Allan Gurganusās new book, Local Souls, is a collection of three novellas.Ā They share a common locationāthe fictional town of Falls, North Carolinaāand also a common theme:Ā survival.Ā They are rendered in a style that is at once lyrical
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In his new short story, āThereās a Small Hotel,ā Andrew Holleran returns to the themes he explored in his last novel, Grief. Once again, Mr. Holleran presents us with a main character who is wrestling with lingering memories.Ā But
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Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club is an excellent book.Ā Iām not the first to notice this.Ā It won the Lambda Award last month and before that, Benjamin Alire Saenzās collection of short stories won the coveted Faukner
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In his new book, The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin humanizes the Jesus story by telling it from the perspective of his Jewish mother.Ā The Mary Mr. Toibin renders here lives her life in fear.Ā She fears the semi-hidden
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Amidst all the successes of the worldwide struggle for LGBT rights, something has undeniably been lost. What that āsomethingā is can be difficult to define, but perhaps the best word for it might simply be, āsleaze.ā The etymology of the
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