Hear Us Out: Conversations with Gay Novelists
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231128673 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He is author of Gay Fiction Speaks (Columbia, 2001) and writes regularly for The Independent.. Richard Canning is lecturer in English and American literature at Sheffield University
The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Readers will recognize names like Michael Cunningham, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Hours inspired the hit movie; and others like Christopher Bram, Bernard Cooper, Stephen McCauley, and Matthew Stadler. These accounts explore the vicissitudes of writing on gay male themes in fiction over the last thirty yearsprejudices of the literary marketplace; social and political questions; the impact of AIDS; commonalities between gay male and lesbian fiction and even some delectable bits of gossip.. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream
Richard Canning said So much tell-all. I read this author's first book of conversations with gay writers, Gay Fiction Speaks. It was brilliant - these were real conversations, not interviews, and showed off all the writers at their wittiest and smartest. I have been waiting so long for volume two, and now
That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book. Hear Us Out is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews,Gay Fiction Speaks, a standard reference for scholars. Canning has a wonderful knack for this work. (David McConnell Lambda Book Report)Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews (Christopher Hennessy The Gay and Lesbian Review)