TY - BOOK AU - Canning,Richard AU - Bergman,David TI - Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists T2 - Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies SN - 9780231502498 AV - PS374.H63 C36 2000eb U1 - 813/.54099206642 21 PY - 2001///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Gay men's writings, American KW - Gay novelists, American KW - Interviews KW - Homosexuality and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBT KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; ONE. James Purdy --; TWO. John Rechy --; THREE. Edmund White --; FOUR. Andrew Holleran --; FIVE. Armistead Maupin --; SIX. Felice Picano --; SEVEN. Allan Gurganus --; EIGHT. Ethan Mordden --; NINE. Dennis Cooper --; TEN. Alan Hollinghurst --; ELEVEN. David Leavitt --; TWELVE. Patrick Gale --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Today's most celebrated, prominent, and promising authors of gay fiction in English explore the literary influences and themes of their work in these revealing interviews with Richard Canning. Though the interviews touch upon a wide range of issues-including gay culture, AIDS, politics, art, and activism-what truly distinguishes them is the extent to which Canning encourages the authors to reflect on their writing practices, published work, literary forebears, and their writing peers-gay and straight.• Edmund White talks about narrative style and the story behind the cover of A Boy's Own Story.• Armistead Maupin discusses his method of writing and how his work has adapted to television. • Dennis Cooper thinks about L.A., AIDS, Try, and pop music.• Alan Hollinghurst considers structure and point of view in The Folding Star, and why The Swimming-Pool Library is exactly 366 pages long.• David Leavitt muses on the identity of the gay reader-and the extent to which that readership defined a tradition. • Andrew Holleran wonders how he might have made The Beauty of Men "more forlorn, romantic, lost" by writing in the first person UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/cann11694 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231502498 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231502498/original ER -