Moving deftly from Coney Island to Africa to the first-ever Academy Award ceremony and back, O, Africa! is an engrossing and thought-provoking novel about self-discovery and the occasionally dangerous power of the movies.
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"Someone asked me, 'Did you think of the book as political?' and of course it is. This is what interests me. I could be writing about two hamsters running on a wheel and it becomes political." Read More
The seven stories in this simply but beautifully written, haunted and haunting collection are told from the point of view...
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie does not feel like a debut novel. The quality of the writing, its quiet intensity, the certainty of the narrative voices speaks of a polish and talent that has been practicing for years. Read More
A seemingly inexhaustible mix of talent, genius, exuberance, and mischievousness, this is the Bernstein that leaps off the page in Dinner with Lenny (Oxford University Press). Read More
What do “The Man in the Arrow Shirt” and the original “Blue Haired Lady” have in common? As Rodger Streitmatter...
In the light of the recent revelation that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have bullied a fellow student in...
Christopher Bram opens the introduction to this informative and highly entertaining overview of gay male writing since World War Two with, “The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.” Read More
Collections such as this also invariably bring up the question, “What is a ‘gay story,’ anyway?” Is it simply a story that a gay person has written? Something that features gay characters prominently? How much focus needs to be on the uniqueness of gay life, or can the protagonist be someone who “just happens to be gay?” Does the author have to be gay—or male—to do it justice? Read More
It’s a shame that summer is over, for Terrance Dean has written a textbook example of the fast-paced “summer novel”...
