With profound literary courage, Chekhovian compassion, and humor, Currier writes not only about those who are living with AIDS and those who have died from it, but also about the friends, families, and lovers who nurse and care for the sick and remember them afterward. Author reading tour.

Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS

Literature & Fiction

Currier, Jameson

United States

Penguin??Books

Dancing on the Moon

From a young writer of profound literary courage and stylistic grace comes an unprecedented book of stories that circumnavigate the world of AIDS. Currier writes about gays and straights, about Southern teenagers and an elderly Jewish widow, about the sick and those who care for them, and those who remember them afterward.

LGBTQ+ Books

Chelsea Station Editions

Unflinching honesty and eloquent style and grace mark a collection of short stories that deal with the emotionally complex and highly controversial subject of AIDS.

Literary

Viking Adult

When Robbie leaves his small town life to move to New York City, he is embraced by members of the gay community who help him in his new world, yet as the 1980s approach and the AIDS epidemic surfaces, Robbie finds himself struggling with new pain and loss.

Where the Rainbow Ends

Overlook Books

This powerful, compelling, and heartfelt first novel centers on Robbie Taylor, an optimistic and romantic young man who settles in New York City in 1978 with a circle of new friends. Where the Rainbow Ends follows Robbie through a personal odyssey into enlightenment, spanning a period of almost fifteen years, from the unabashed revelry of gay Manhattan through a quest for faith, family, and understanding as the AIDS epidemic tests him like a modern-day Job. Currier masterfully weaves an ardent story about the families that we create for ourselves, a story that is at once lyrical, poignant, and sexy.

In Still Dancing author Jameson Currier brings together twenty short stories spanning three decades of the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the gay community. Along with stories from Currier¿s debut collection, Dancing on the Moon, praised by The Village Voice as ¿defiant and elegiac,¿ are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form.

Still Dancing

Short Stories & Anthologies

From the author of Where the Rainbow Ends and The Haunted Heart comes a witty tour de force of spirits, spooks, and sinners, a supernatural roller coaster set in the Big Easy that is giddy, soulful and sentimental. When a death occurs at Le Petite Paradis, a guesthouse in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the spirit world becomes unsettled, or so Avery Greene Dalyrymple III, the co-owner believes. The son and grandson of Southern evangelists, Avery is also an overworked and overwrought middle-aged gay man, a cynical big-time drinker and sinner fairly certain he can maintain a family of other deviants and delinquents stumbling along Bourbon Street to keep him company. But Avery is also the only person in contact with the spirit world on his property ghosts from the house's origins during the 1820s and he must use the history left behind from another ghost a gay man from the 1970s to find a way to restore peace to his household and rejuvenate his faith.

The Wolf at the Door

Genre Fiction

Jameson Currier expands his richly detailed storytelling to an international level, weaving together the intertwining stories of the search for a missing journalist in the Bamiyan region of Afghanistan with a young man's search for his older brother in Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11 into a sweeping, multi-cultural novel of what it means to be a gay citizen of the world. Currier once again targets the big themes of modern gay life: identity, faith, homophobia, romance, and the complexity of relationships, but at the heart of The Third Buddha are the little acts of random kindness that continue to astonish in times of crisis and war.

The Third Buddha

From the author of Where the Rainbow Ends and The Haunted Heart, this debut collection of short stories, first published in 1993, was praised for its courageous and compassionate depiction of the impact of AIDS on gay men and their families and friends.

When Robbie leaves his small town life to move to New York City, he is embraced by members of the gay community who help him in his new world, yet as the 1980s approach and the AIDS epidemic surfaces, Robbie finds himself struggling with new pain and loss. Reprint.

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Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS

Dancing on the Moon

Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS

Where the Rainbow Ends

Where the Rainbow Ends

Still Dancing

The Wolf at the Door

The Third Buddha

Dancing on the Moon

Where the Rainbow Ends