Short and sweet.More than just entertainment, gay and lesbian short stories give us vital glimpses of ourselves and each other, Examples abound among these notable current collections My Date With Satan * By Stacey Richter * Scribner * $22 Readers will find perhaps the year's most stunning voice in short fiction in this collection by the Pushcart Prize-winning author. Wonderful in tone and setting, selections run the gamut from hilarious ("Sally's Story") to unsentimental ("Rats Eat Cats"). Obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. * Edited by Michael Lowenthal Michael Lowenthal (May 9, 1969) is an American fiction writer. He is the author of the novels Charity Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), Avoidance (Graywolf Press, 2002) and The Same Embrace (Dutton, 1998; paperback by Plume, 1999). * Plume * $12.95 One of the liveliest, most varied volumes in Lowenthal's venerable Flesh and the Word series collects stories by both long-established voices (Andrew Holleran Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1944), a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall gay literature. He was a member of the Violet Quill, a gay writer's group that met briefly from 1980-81. ) and exhilarating new talent (Mack Friedman). The stories are sexy without the standard trappings of soft-core. 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 : Take Two * Edited by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X. Tulchinsky Karen X. Tulchinsky is an openly lesbian[1] Canadian novelist, short story writer, anthologist and screenwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. Tulchinsky attended the Banff School of Fine Arts (1981) and graduated from York University with a BFA in 1982. * Firebrand fire·brand n. 1. A person who stirs up trouble or kindles a revolt. 2. A piece of burning wood. firebrand Noun * $12.95 These stories--continued from a previous volume by the same authors--are full of humor, passion, and, as before, accomplished writing by new and familiar names. His 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers * Edited by Robert Drake with Terry Wolverton * Faber & Faber * $15 One pleasant surprise is that this third installment in the series isn't as queer-centric as it has been in years past. Many stories--like David Pratt's "Series," featuring TV heroines Mary and Rhoda--will expose these fine writers to a wider audience. Hers 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers * Edited by Terry Wolverton with Robert Drake * Faber & Faber * $15 The fabric of lesbian life is well-chronicled in an anthology that provides pleasures (stories by Barbara Wilson and Emma Donoghue) amid few surprises. The World and Other Places * By Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her up in Accrington, Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian missionary. * Knopf * $22 The wryly amusing fable "The Three Friends" and the sexually inventive "The Poetics of Sex" along with 15 other tales make a convincing case for the continuing health of Winterson's talent. This is storytelling at its most visceral and affecting. |
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