Hear Us Out: Conversations with Gay Novelists

Richard Canning

Published by Columbia University Press 2004

Hear Us Out

Conversations with Gay Novelists

Richard Canning

In the series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

https://doi.org/10.7312/cann12866

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About this book

The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream.

The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. 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 years—prejudices 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.

Author / Editor information

Richard Canning is lecturer in English and American literature at Sheffield University. He is author of Gay Fiction Speaks (Columbia, 2001) and writes regularly for The Independent.

Reviews

Christopher Hennessy:
Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews

David McConnell:
Hear Us Out is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews,Gay Fiction Speaks, a standard reference for scholars. That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book.... Canning has a wonderful knack for this work.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
ONE. Gary Indiana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
TWO. Bernard Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
THREE. Christopher Bram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
FOUR. Michael Cunningham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
FIVE. Jim Grimsley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
SIX. Stephen McCauley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
SEVEN. Colm Tóibín Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
EIGHT. Paul Russell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
NINE. Peter Cameron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
TEN. Matthew Stadler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
ELEVEN. Philip Hensher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
TWELVE. Dale Peck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 432

eBook

Published: January 13, 2004
ISBN: 9780231516310