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Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America (2012)

by Christopher Bram(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0446563137 (ISBN13: 9780446563130)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Twelve

review 1: Excellent. This is a definite must-read for anyone interested in (gay) fiction and the literary life. Not only is this book filled with the works of most of the major writers of gay fiction, from the 1950s to today, but the reader is also treated to bits of gossip about the writers, including rivalry (and friendships) between each other. We are also given brief snapshots of history, which was helpful to see the influences of the times each book was being published. WARNING: this book names a lot of gay fiction and will make you want to read them. (I was surprised at home many of these works I had already read).
review 2: Wow! It's been... some time since I couldn't put down a work of literary non-fiction. I'm as taken by Bram's first-person opinions as I a... morem his well-researched looks into Williams/Isherwood/Capote/Vidal/Baldwin through Tony Kushner, a proto-JT LeRoy whose infamy was a few years before my time, and beyond. (I didn't realize, for instance, that Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You was written by someone known outside of YA circles...) less

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