Get it together.When it comes to gay and lesbian stories, one is never enough. These anthologies will please your friends over and over. * Men on Men 7, edited by David Bergman David Bergman is an American writer and English professor at Towson University. He was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and graduated from Kenyon College and Johns Hopkins University. He received the George Elliston Poetry Prize for his work Cracking the Code. (Plume, $13.95), delivers work from the best of the up-and-coming writers (see Michael Bendzela's "Marriage") and celebrities likes Felice Picano Felice Picano is a gay American writer. Biography Born in New York, he founded SeaHorse Press in 1977, and later Gay Presses of New York with Terry Helbing and Larry Mitchell in 1981 and was Editor in Chief there. . Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade, edited by Clifford Chase (Rob Weisbach, $24), charts the gawky and sometimes heartbreaking experience of growing up different, with authors including Michael Lowenthal and Andrew Holleran. * In Sarah Schulman's contribution to Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism, edited by Lawrence Schimel (Ultra Violet, $12.95), a woman discovers she has grown a penis, another girl with a penis shows up in Jeff Richardson's "The Boy Who Had Breast," which is included in Contra/Diction: New Queer Male Fiction, edited by Brett Josef Grubisic Brett Josef Grubisic is a Canadian novelist and editor, and professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He has edited one anthology of gay male fiction, and co-edited an anthology of upcoming Canadian writers. (Arsenal Pulp Press, $15.95). * Fantasy prevails in Jewelle Gomez's Don't Explain (Firebrand fire·brand n. 1. A person who stirs up trouble or kindles a revolt. 2. A piece of burning wood. firebrand Noun , $10.95), a stunning set that includes "Houston," in which the heroine of the author's Gilda Stories returns. Gay Old Girls by Zsa Zsa Gershick (Alyson Publications, $12.95) prevents rousing memories from women who loved women back when you could go to jail for doing just that. Liz Galst's story "Dating the Goyim" is among the gems in Chasing the American Dyke Dream: Homestretch home·stretch n. 1. The portion of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. 2. Informal The final stages of an undertaking. Noun 1. (Cleis, $14.95), editor Susan Fox Roger's lively look at lesbian families. Michele Karslberg and Karen X. Tulchinsky's To Be Continued This article is about the Elton John box set. For the plot device commonly featuring the phrase "To be continued", see Cliffhanger. To Be Continued ... (Firebrand, $24.95 cloth, $11.95 paper) may be the best collection of the season, with an all-star cast of authors (including Judith Katz, Kitty Tsui, and Lucy Jane Bledsoe) writing stories that don't end but continue next year in a companion volume. |
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