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The burning library : essays / Edmund White ; edited by David Bergman.
LIBRA PS3573.H463 B87 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Edmund, 1940-2025.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Gay men--Social life and customs.
- Gay men.
- Gay men--Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- essays.
- Essays.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 386 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Vintage International ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage International, 1995, ©1994.
- Contents:
- On Reading: An Exaltation of Dreams
- I. THE SEVENTIES
- The Gay Philosopher
- On Becoming a Model for Male Smut
- The Joys of Gay Life
- Fantasia on the Seventies
- On James Merrill
- Sado Machismo
- II. THE EIGHTIES
- The Political Vocabulary of Homosexuality
- The Irresponsible Art of Robert Mapplethorne
- A Sensual Man with a Spiritual Quest: Christopher Isherwood
- The Politics of Gender: Michel Foucault
- Sweating Mirrors: A Conversation with Truman Capote
- This is Not a Mammal: A Visit with William Burroughs
- James Schuyler
- Thoughts on White on Black on White: Coleman Dowell
- The Emperor of Signs: Roland Barthes
- Movies and Poems: Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Paradise Found
- Sexual Culture
- Nabakov: Beyond Parody
- Writer on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams
- The Woman Who Loved Memory: Christina Stead
- Keeping up with the Jones: James Jones
- Their Masks, Their Lives
- Harry Mathew's Cigarettes
- Esthetics and Loss
- Danilo Kis: The Obligations of Form
- The Critic, the Mirror and the Vamp: A.W. Symons
- The Paris Review Interview
- THE NINETIES
- The Angel in the House: Tennessee William's Letters
- Out of the Closet, on to the Bookshelf
- The Wanderer: Juan Goytisolo's Border Crossings
- Genet's Prisoner of Love
- Straight Women, Gay Men
- Black Like Whom?: Darryl Pinckney
- Southern Belles Lettres: Cormac McCarthy
- Two Princes: Prince and Richard Prince
- Two Eulogies: David Kalstone, Robert Mapplethorpe
- Pool in Rocks by the Sea: Isherwood and Bachardy
- Marguerite Yourcernar
- Herve Giubert: Sade in Jeans
- The Personal Is Political: Queer Fiction and Criticism.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- Other Format:
- Online version: White, Edmund, 1940- Burning library.
- ISBN:
- 0679754741
- 9780679754749
- 0679434755
- 9780679434757
- OCLC:
- 33488913
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