The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, edited by Tom Cardamone, includes appreciations by 28 contemporary writers of significant gay novels and short story collections now out of print.[1] The Lost Library includes an essay on reprints of gay literature by Philip Clark. Published in March 2010, it features a cover illustration by Mel Odom.

Table of contents

  1. Introduction — Tom Cardamone
  2. Rabih Alameddine, The Perv: Stories — Michael Graves
  3. Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers — Christopher Bram
  4. Neil Bartlett, Ready to Catch Him, Should He Fall — Philip Clark
  5. George Baxt, A Queer Kind of Death — Larry Duplechan
  6. Bruce Benderson, User — Rob Stephenson
  7. Christopher Coe, Such Times — Jameson Currier
  8. Daniel Curzon, Something You Do in the Dark — Jesse Monteagudo
  9. Melvin Dixon, Vanishing Rooms — Ian Rafael Titus
  10. John Donovan, I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip — Martin Wilson
  11. Robert Ferro, The Blue Star — Stephen Greco
  12. John Gilgun, Music I Never Dreamed Of — Wayne Courtois
  13. Agustín Gómez-Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb — Richard Reitsma
  14. Michael Grumley, Life Drawing — Sam Miller
  15. Lynn Hall, Sticks and Stones — Sean Meriwether
  16. Richard Hall, Couplings — Jonathan Harper
  17. J.S. Marcus, The Captain’s Fire — Aaron Hamburger
  18. James McCourt, Time Remaining — Tim Young
  19. Mark Merlis, American Studies — Rick Whitaker
  20. Charles Nelson, The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up — Jim Marks
  21. Kyle Onstott and Lance Horner, Child of the Sun — Michael Bronski
  22. Roger Peyrefitte, The Exile of Capri — Gregory Woods
  23. Paul Reed, Longing — Bill Brent
  24. Paul Rogers, Saul's Book — Paul Russell
  25. Patrick Roscoe, Birthmarks — Andy Quan
  26. Douglas Sadownick, Sacred Lips of the Bronx — Tom Cardamone
  27. Glenway Wescott, The Apple of the Eye — Jerry Rosco
  28. George Whitmore, Nebraska — Victor Bumbalo
  29. Donald Windham, Two People, Philip Gambone
  30. Come Again: A History of the Reprinting of Gay Novels, Philip Clark

Awards

The Lost Library won the San Francisco Book Festival's gay category for best book of the spring season, and was named one of the 10 best nonfiction books of 2010 in Richard Labonté's Book Marks column.

References

  1. ↑ "The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered Edited by Tom Cardamone". The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, May 4, 2013.
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