Men on Men 2: Best New Gay Fiction - Softcover

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9780452261433: Men on Men 2: Best New Gay Fiction

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ISBN 10: 0452261430 ISBN 13: 9780452261433

Publisher: Plume, 1988

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Second in this series, which ran from 1987 until 2001. This volume collects short fiction from 1988. Many reflect the writers' responses to the emerging issues to which AIDS gave rise. Includes an introduction by the editor and these stories: My Mother's Clothes: the School of Beauty and Shame (Richard McCann); The age of Anxiety (David Fienberg); Junge Dove (Joseph Pintauro); In This Corner (James Purdy); Solidarity (Albert Innaurato); Dancing on the Tishe B'av (Lev Raphael); Snapshot (Allen Barnett); Anything You Want (Christopher Coe); Ayor (David Leavitt); I Go Back to the Mais Oui (James McCourt); Why People Get Cancer ( Anderson Ferrell); Nobody's Child (David Groff); Once in Syracuse (David Brendan Hopes); Life Suck, or Ernest Hemingway Never Slept Here (Tim Barrus); Red Leaves (Melvin Dickson); Magic (Garry Glickman); The Boys in the Bars (Christopher Davis); Adult Art (Allan Gurganus).

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Stambolian's second anthology of gay fiction, representing 18 writers, reveals a broad range of subjects and settings: a gay man reflects on his pained relations with his father in Gary Glickman's moving and graceful "Magic"; Joseph Pintauro's "Jungle Dove" focuses on straight male prisoners coerced into sex with each other; a married, bisexual schools superintendent narrates Allan Gurganus's "Adult Art." Sadly but inevitably, AIDS, along with New York City's gay community, is central to many stories, among the best of which are "Solidarity," a previously unpublished work by Albert Innaurato, and Christopher Davis's "The Boys in the Bars." Yet Stambolian's promise of mainstream appeal is unlikely. The collective misogyny is offensive and the literary merit of perhaps a third of these pieces is insufficient to command the attention of readers without ties to gay culture.
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