50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read
Richard Canning
Contents
Introduction / Richard Canning — Samuel and 2 Samuel (after 960 BC) / Aaron Hamburger — Gilgamesh (between 668 and 627 BC) / David McConnell — Poems (c. 600 BC), Sappho / Maureen Duffy — The symposium (c. 384 BC), Plato / Shaun Levin — Letters (1798 and later), Horace Walpole / Duncan Fallowell — Moby Dick (1851), Herman Melville / Vestal McIntyre — Leaves of grass (1855 and later), Walt Whitman / Philip Clark — A season in hell = Une saison en enfer (1873), Arthur Rimbaud / Kevin Killian — The Bostonians (1866), Henry James / Regina Marler — A Shropshire lad (1896), A.E. Housman / Mark Merlis — De Profundis (1895-97, published 1905 and 1962), Oscar Wilde / Fenton Johnson — Claudine at school = Claudine à l’école (1900), Colette / Alison Smith — Death in Venice = Tod in Venedig (1912), Thomas Mann / Christopher Bram — The flower beneath the foot (1923), Ronald Firbank / Brian Bouldrey — Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Virginia Woolf / Jane DeLynn — Time regained = Le temps retrouvé (1927), Marcel Proust / Felice Picano — More women than men (1933), Ivy Compton-Burnett / Lisa Cohen — Poems (1935 and later), Constantine Cavafy / David Plante — Nightwood (1936), Djuna Barnes / Eric Karl Anderson — The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1922-41; 1985), Vita Sackville-West / Carol Anshaw — Brideshead revisited (1945), Evelyn Waugh / Bob Smith — Memoirs of Hadrian = Mémoires d’Hadrien (1951), Marguerite Yourcenar / Edmund White — Carol: The price of salt (1952), Patricia Highsmith / Stella Duffy — In the making (1952), G.F. Green / Peter Parker — Forbidden colors (1953), Yukio Mishima / Randall Kenan — Howl and other poems (1956), Allen Ginsberg / David Bergman — Giovanni’s room (1956), James Baldwin / Douglas A. Martin — First love and other sorrows: stories (1958), Harold Brodkey / Noel Alumit — A taste of honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney / John Weir — A single man (1964), Christopher Isherwood / Patrick Ryan — Paradiso (1966), José Lezama Lima / RIchard Reitsma — Eustace Chisholm and the works (1967), James Purdy / Jonathan Franzen — My father and myself (1968), J.R. Ackerley / Andrew Holleran — Betrayed by Rita Hayworth = La traicion de Rita Hayworth (1968), Mañuel Puig / R. Zamora Linmark — The wild boys: a book of the dead (1971), William Burroughs / Kathy Acker — The Persian boy (1972), Mary Renault / Jim Grimsley — Too much flesh and Jabez (1977), Coleman Dowell / Bradley Craft — Dancer from the dance (1978), Andrew Holleran / Matias Viegener — The cancer journals (1980), Audre Lorde / Tania Katan — The color purple (1982), Alice Walker / Mark Behr — A boy’s own story (1983), Edmund White / Robert Glück — Oranges are not the only fruit (1985), Jeanette Winterson / V.G. Lee — To the friend who did not save my life = A l’ami qui ne m’a pas sauvé la vie (1990), Hervé Guibert / Alistair McCartney — The terrible girls (1990), Rebecca Brown / Carol Guess — The man who fell in love with the moon (1991), Tom Spanbauer / Larry Duplechan — Take me to Paris, Johnny (1993), John Foster / Rob Beeston — Palimpsest (1995), Gore Vidal / Paul Reidinger — Allan Stein (1999), Matthew Stadler / Blair Mastbaum — Ghost dance (2004), Douglas Wright / Richard Canning — Burning dreams (2006), Susan Smith / J.D. Glass.
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ISBN | 9781593501198 |
Genre | Literary History |
Publication Date | 01-Jun-09 |
Publisher | Alyson Books |
Editor | Richard Canning |
Format | Trade Paperback |
No. of Pages | 288 |
Notes | which cover??? |
Language | English |
Rating | NotRated |
Editor | Richard Canning |
BookID | 59 |