Best Gay Stories 2009
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590211499 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lambda Award-nominated editor Steve Berman has been writing stories both queer and strange for many years. Berman is an active member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). . He is the author of Vintage: A Ghost Story (Haworth) and his work has appeared in the fantasy anthologies The Faery Reel and The Coyote Road. Mr
Uneven , but Interesting Kindle Customer Should gay stories be judged with the same criteria as straight stories? Of course. Is there such as thing as gay or straight stories? A more difficult question. As a writer, I chose this book to get an idea of what constituted a "best" gay story. The particular taste of the editor is certainly a factor and his take on literary (or fictional) excellence. I had an agenda: I want my gay characters i
Noted editor Steve Berman, a finalist for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award and Lambda Literary Award, has spent the past year reading page after page to bring booklovers a collection of the finest stories featuring the pain of first loves and the comfort of old lovers, wistful essays and poignant confessions. Best Gay Stories 2009 offers eighteen tales showing the handsome face of gay writing. These stories, by award-winning authors as well as fresh voices in the field, encompass the range of emotions every gay man feels in his lifetime.
But most are more conventional narratives. Miller's on-target tale about racial insensitivity, ''Haunting Your House''; Trebor Healey's elegiac account of a young man memorializing his lover's death; Christopher Schmidt's trilogy of short-shorts observing queer life, ''Three Scenes''; Craig Laurance Gidney's recasting of French poet and libertine Arthur Rimbaud, ''Strange Alphabets''; and David Levithan's charming account of a teen's babysitting adventure and his encounter with ''Starbucks Boy.'' Anthologies promising the ''Best'' are entirely subjective; for every story included there are certainly three or four just as good that don t make the cut. AIDS is important in at least one story. Style and themes are varied. There aren't any duds, but highlights include Sam J. Anderson for the GLBT Roundtable of the American Library Association . One interesting feature of the volume is the ordering of the stories, which for t