Best American gay fiction 1996 / edited by Brian Bouldrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouldrey, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--United States--Fiction.

Gay men.

Gay men's writings, American.

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

Short stories, American.

United States.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

318 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Little, Brown and Co., 1996.

Summary:

Following the success of last year's debut volume, this Best American Gay Fiction collection broadens the range of contributors, styles, and genres. Here is outstanding new work by such well-known writers as Andrew Holleran, Dale Peck, Michael Nava, and David Wojnarowicz alongside fresh talents who capture the full spectrum of gay life today -- African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. The impressive writing presented here -- all drawn from works published in 1996 -- reflects this diversity as well, and ranges from coming-of-age narratives to reflections on growing older, from edgy 'zine fiction to elegant tales wrought with lapidary precision.

Unified only by their excellence, these twenty-one selections are resounding proof of yet another banner year for gay fiction.

Contents:

"His Biographer," from Skinned Alive / Edmund White 3

"Split Lip," from Queer View Mirror / Jim Provenzano 26

"I Am Making a Mistake," from Walking on Air / R. S. Jones 29

"The Wedding Dress," from His / Jason K. Friedman 37

"Don't or Stop," from Mysterious Skin / Scott Heim 59

"Banking Hours," from Does Freddy Dance / Dick Scanlan 80

"The Early Worm," from Contact, the 114th Annual Exhibition of the Walter/McBean Gallery / Robert Gluck 98

"Monologue of Triste the Contortionist," from The James White Review / Ernesto Mestre 104

"On the Mound," from Dream Boy / Jim Grimsley 119

"The Medicine Burns," from The Medicine Burns / Adam Klein 130

"Allan Stein," from In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice / Matthew Stadler 151

"Posterity," from Father of Frankenstein / Christopher Bram 166

"Arson," from His / Bernard Cooper 194

"The Spanking," from Mirage/Period(ical) / Joe Westmoreland 211

"Going Away," from Flesh and the Word 3 / Michael Lowenthal 220

"After the Change," from Modern Words / Jl Schneider 237

"Distortion," from Men's Style / Stephen Beachy 243

"ghosts, pockets, traces, necessary clouds," from Pen N Sword / Aldo Alvarez 256

"Running Shoes," from Christopher Street / Rick Barrett 267

"Hot Lights," from Gerbil / Kevin Killian 281

"Cassandra," from Flesh and Blood / Michael Cunningham 290.

ISBN:

0316103209

0316103179

OCLC:

35568587