Something Inside: Conversations With Gay Fiction Writers

In the last twenty years, gay literature has earned a place at the American and British literary tables, spawning its own constellation of important writers and winning a dedicated audience. No one, though, until Philip Gambone, has attempted to offer a collective portrait of our most important gay fiction writers. This selection of interviews attempts just that and is notable both for the depth of Gambone’s probing conversations and for the sheer range of important authors included.Allen BarnettChristopher BramPeter CameronBernard CooperDennis CooperMichael CunninghamBrad GoochJoseph HansenScott HeimAndrew HolleranAlan HollinghurstBrian Keith JacksonRandall KenanDavid LeavittMichael LowenthalPaul MonetteMichael NavaDavid PlanteJohn PrestonLev RaphaelEdmund White

Self-Help

Gambone, Philip

University of Wisconsin Press

In the last twenty years, gay literature has earned a place at the American and British literary tables, spawning its own constellation of important writers and winning a dedicated audience. No one, though, until Philip Gambone, has attempted to offer a collective portrait of our most important gay fiction writers. This selection of interviews attempts just that and is notable both for the depth of Gambone’s probing conversations and for the sheer range of important authors included. Allen Barnett Christopher Bram Peter Cameron Bernard Cooper Dennis Cooper Michael Cunningham Brad Gooch Joseph Hansen Scott Heim Andrew Holleran Alan Hollinghurst Brian Keith Jackson Randall Kenan David Leavitt Michael Lowenthal Paul Monette Michael Nava David Plante John Preston Lev Raphael Edmund White

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Escaping his ghosts, AIDS widower David Masiello accepts a one-year position at a Western medical clinic in Beijing. Lonely but excited, he sets out to explore the city—both its bustling street life and its clandestine gay subculture. David chronicles his adventures in China as he wrestles with cultural dislocation, loneliness, and sexual and spiritual longing. After a series of both comic and poignant encounters with gay Chinese men, he meets Bosheng, a handsome young artist. Though the attraction is strong, a difficult courtship ensues, during which Bosheng returns to his ancestral village to marry the girl his parents have chosen for him. Eventually, and quite unexpectedly, David and Bosheng reconnect and share an idyllic spring together. As the year ends, David must decide whether to say goodbye or face the uncertainties of a long-distance relationship. Gambone’s novel is peopled with a host of wonderfully memorable characters: Owen, David’s forthright best friend back home; Auntie Chen, the clinic’s office mom, who wants to fix David up with a girlfriend; Stewart, David’s Beijing roommate, a graduate student doing research on Peking opera; Jiantao and Guoyang, two lovers who lecture David on the fleeting quality of American romance; and Tyson, the Australian doctor with a Chinese girlfriend, who hopes to teach David that love doesn’t need any explanations or justifications.

Beijing: A Novel

Arts & Photography

Sculpture

For two years, Philip Gambone traveled the length and breadth of the United States, talking candidly with LGBTQ people about their lives. In addition to interviews from David Sedaris, George Takei, Barney Frank, and Tammy Baldwin, Travels in a Gay Nation brings us lesser-known voices—a retired Naval officer, a transgender scholar and “drag king,” a Princeton philosopher, two opera sopranos who happen to be lovers, an indie rock musician, the founder of a gay frat house, and a pair of Vermont garden designers. In this age when contemporary gay America is still coming under attack, Gambone captures the humanity of each individual. For some, their identity as a sexual minority is crucial to their life’s work; for others, it has been less so, perhaps even irrelevant. But, whether splashy or quiet, center-stage or behind the scenes, Gambone’s subjects have managed—despite facing ignorance, fear, hatred, intolerance, injustice, violence, ridicule, or just plain indifference—to construct passionate, inspiring lives. Finalist, Foreword Magazine’s Anthology of the Year Outstanding Book in the High School Category, selected by the American Association of School Libraries Best Book in Special Interest Category, selected by the Public Library Association

Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The Language We Use up Here and Other Stories (Plume Fiction)

Literary

Plume

This collection of stories about gay men, who are successful teachers, lawyers, managers, and college students, revolves around their search for affection, companionship, and spiritual satisfaction

The Language We Use up Here and Other Stories

United States

Dutton Adult

Philip Gambone, a gay man, never told his father the reason why he was rejected from the draft during the Vietnam War. In turn, his father never talked about his participation in World War II. Father and son were enigmas to each other. Gambone, an award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer, spent seven years uncovering who the man his quiet, taciturn father had been, by retracing his father's journey through WW II. As Far As I Can Tell not only reconstructs what Gambone's father endured, it also chronicles his own emotional odyssey as he followed his father's route from Liverpool to the Elbe River. A journey that challenged the author's thinking about war, about European history, and about "civilization."

As Far As I Can Tell: Finding My Father in World War II

History

Military

Rattling Good Yarns Press

Product Description The Alex Kane Missions, Books 1 & 2 – Meet Alex Kane. In Vietnam, the only lover he had known had been killed by a homophobic coward. With his physical prowess and the financial backing of his former lover’s family Kane's sorrow turned to action, and he is resolved to fight back against anyone, anywhere who dares to challenge the dreams of gay men. In Sweet Dreams, someone was daring to mess with young gay men in Boston. Danny Fortelli, a high school senior and superb gymnast, gets caught up in a drugs-and-prostitution ring exploiting gay youth. Boston’s South End had become the epicenter of violence driven by a corrupt elite. Enter Alex Kane to alter their plans forever. In Golden Years, Joe Talbot, long retired and now widowed, dreams of an easier life in a gay retirement community that sounds too good to be true. But when his young friend Sam, left behind in New York, begins to suspect the “golden agers” are being mistreated, the news reaches Alex Kane’s financier. Kane jumps into action, gaining the support of a local cowboy plucked right out of the Old West. These evil doers won’t know what hit them when Alex Kane and his Cowboy ride into town! A celebrated series of superhero adventure stories written for a general audience by bad boy John Preston whose journalism and fictional writings brought leather and bondage scene mainstream. This new edition includes a foreword by Philip Gambone (As Far As I Can Tell: Finding My Father In World War II).“If a book can be judged by how quickly you turn the pages, Sweet Dreams is a winner. You may not agree with Kane’s methods, but you can’t quarrel with his sense of purpose. After such an auspicious debut, the future bodes well for Alex Kane and his creator.” – Washington Blade“I haven’t read such a highly-charged entertaining gay fiction in a long time, and I’m truly dying to find out what, or who, Alex Kane is going to avenge next. So hurry up, John Preston, and write!” – Paul Reed, Bay Area Reporter“The first of a series on the adventures of gay avenger Alex Kane is both fun to read and uplifting. Any culture needs richness of mythos in order to grow. Preston’s story is a step toward filling a deep need for gay dreams.” – The Advocate Review "If a book can be judged by how quickly you turn the pages, Sweet Dreams is a winner. You may not agree with Kane's methods, but you can't quarrel with his sense of purpose. After such an auspicious debut, the future bodes well for Alex Kane and his creator." - David K. Krohne, Washington Blade"The only problem with Sweet Dreams is that I can't wait to read the next one. I haven't read such a highly-charged entertaining gay fiction in a long time, and I'm truly dying to find out what, or who, Alex Kane is going to avenge next. So hurry up, John Preston, and write!" - Paul Reed, Bay Area Reporter"The first of what is to be a series on the adventures of gay avenger Alex Kane is both fun to read and uplifting. Any culture needs richness of mythos in order to grow. Preston's story is a step toward filling a deep need for gay dreams." - Geoff Mains, The Advocate About the Author Born in Portland, Maine, John Preston was an influential author of fiction and nonfiction, dealing mostly with issues in gay life. He was a pioneer in the early gay rights movement in Minneapolis. He helped found one of the earliest gay community centers in the United States, edited two newsletters devoted to sexual health, and served as editor of The Advocate in 1975. He was the author or editor of nearly fifty books, including such erotic landmarks as Mr. Benson and I Once Had a Master and Other Tales of Erotic Love. Preston's writing was part of a movement in the 1970s and 1980s toward higher literary quality in gay erotic fiction. He was an outspoken advocate of the artistic and social worth of erotic writings. His nonfiction anthologies, which collected essays by himself and others on everyday aspects of gay and lesbian lif

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