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Gay Novels?

Posted: 8/1/13 at 10:03am

Some of your faves, please.
Salon.com article "Whither The Gay Novel?"

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Gay Novels?

Posted: 8/1/13 at 10:17am

Isherwood's A SINGLE MAN -- probably the best gay-themed novel in my experience, not that I've read a lot of gay-themed novels.

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Gay Novels?

Posted: 8/1/13 at 10:18am

I thought the gay novel was put on hold to focus on getting married.

Kidding. Kind of.

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 10:26am

A SINGLE MAN is simply a masterpiece.

Also love THE SWIMMING POOL LIBRARY.

Gay Novels?

Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:02am

My guilty pleasure are erotic gay vampire novels.

Gay Novels?

Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:14am

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Gay Novels?

Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:17am

Well, if we're going into one-handed reading, ya can't beat MACHO SLUTS which is every bit as good as it's title.

Gay Novels?

Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:21am

Ha!

For light reading I love the entire output of Stephen McCauley. His debut novel "The Object of My Affection" is one of my favorite debuts ever. Just ignore how Wendy Wassterstein wassersteined it all up to make a movie out of it for Jennifer Aniston.
Stephen McCauley

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:22am

oops mistake, please disregard

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:26am

As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:27am

Here's some gawd-awful examples from the past:
50's/60's covers

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:28am

"Three Junes" by Julia Glass is one of the best new novels I've read in years.

I love all of Stephen McCauley's novels.

"A Home At The End of the World" Michael Cunningham.

I didn't like "The Line of Beauty," but perhaps I should give Hollinghurst's other books a try.

classics: Isherwood, Genet, Stein and Baldwin. "Nightwood" Djuna Barnes

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:31am

Yeah, poor old Wendy really trashed that OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION for the screen. I'd forgive the tinkering with the story if it hadn't so totally demonized George and victimized Nina in the process.

I did like THE EASY WAY OUT, too.

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:31am

Object of My Affection is brilliant. What a great cast of characters!

I love Christopher Bram- his debut Surprising Myself is a great coming-out book. Gossip is set in the early days of on-line hook-ups and imagines an Act Up-like activist meeting a Rush Limbaugh type closet case and the mixed emotions that ensue.

And Lives of the Circus Animals is set in New York mostly among theater folk.

All his books have recently been reissued for Kindle.

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:33am

I always find it dispiriting when I look for Gay And Lesbian titles in the kindle store -- all that ever seems to come up is soft-core romance crap.

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:44am

Yes, the movie of "Object" is a hot mess while the book is beautiful, tender and very funny.

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 11:48am

David B. Feinberg's hilarious "Eighty-Sixed" is the definitive NYC AIDS activist novel. So effing funny, so gorgeously constructed.

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 12:12pm

Second. Eighty-Sixed is amazing.

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 12:16pm

A great resource for finding authors/titles/subject matter, as well as purchasing.

http://www.insightoutbooks.com/

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 12:16pm

I read Eighty-Sixed and Spontaneous Combustion so long ago, I don't remember a thing about them. I need to pick both of those up again.

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 12:16pm

They don't make em like they used to, do they Joeyboy? Please pass me a Country Time Lemonade.

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 12:19pm

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 12:23pm

Ha!

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 8:11pm

This won't please Namo...

For light reading I love the entire output of Stephen McCauley. His debut novel "The Object of My Affection" is one of my favorite debuts ever. Just ignore how Wendy Wassterstein wassersteined it all up to make a movie out of it for Jennifer Aniston.

...but I could not agree more!

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Posted: 8/1/13 at 9:17pm

I now have more books to add to my never ending list of books-to-read.

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