Edmund White’s new novel, Jack Holmes and his Friend tells the stories of two men–one straight and one gay–in the nineteen sixties and seventies. It isn’t surprising that Mr. White brilliantly describes the story of Jack Holmes–the gay character. (He
What is it about time travel that is so attractive to us? Is it nostalgia? Or is it the existential desire to free ourselves from time–the one element that defines our life experience as finite? For Bob Smith, author of
One of the few bright spots in the book world–aside from cookbooks–is youth fiction. Youth fiction–or YAF–hasn’t always gotten the respect that it deserves. But the publishing world’s attitude has changed significantly with the phenomenal success of the Stephenie Meyer
After twenty-one years, Armistead Maupin has finally released another Tales of the City book. The result is more literary, more serious and–for me–more emotionally moving than any of Mr. Maupin’s previous books.
I love Stephen McCauley’s new novel, Insignificant Others. It is frequently humorous and for this reason, some are referring to it as a “comic novel.” But this term does not do justice to this book. Because it implies a surface
As you probably have read by now, Sebastian Stuart’s The Hour Between won the Publishing Triangle Award for Fiction. The best thing about this news for me was that I discovered a book that I had somehow missed when it
I’m delighted to report that David McConnell’s new novel The Silver Hearted is excellent. The Silver Hearted is a suspenseful adventure story that is clearly influenced by Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Edgar Alan Poe. This unfortunately implies a
If you haven’t read it yet, now is the time to read Armistead Maupin’s latest novel, Michael Tolliver Lives. It is arguably Mr. Maupin’s best novel and it is now available in paperback.
The state of queer fiction is miserable. Fewer and fewer queer titles are being published. And those that are published don’t sell, because they aren’t very good. It is not the intention of this blog to dwell on the negative.