Yet, take a closer look and you’ll see there were a massive number of incredible films out there. It was the decade when many thought Hollywood finally abandoned originality altogether.
Doubleday, $22.95 (6-6).ĭisgraced journalist and former drunk Benjamin Justice nearly blows a high-bucks TV writing gig and a stab at a new career when he refuses to stop investigating the torture-death of his predecessor on the project.Looking back at start of the century, it seems the ’00s will be remembered for the start of the influx and glut of sequels and franchise films.
for a trip full of conflicting emotions and creative love. The dean of American gay novelists tells the story of an HIV-positive American in Paris, who takes his AIDS-afflicted ex and present lovers back to the U.S. The AIDS death of his best friend, Ah Yao, exacerbates the desperation and fear of abandonment that 40-year-old Shao feels in this intellectually distinguished Taiwanese novel. by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. Norton, $24.95 (8-3).įinely drawn characters, flawless timing, and riveting action ensure that, no matter how many lost daughters (and mothers), not to mention murdered lesbians, there are, the fourth Mickey Knight mystery is the best yet. When his sister-in-law dies, Sam and his lover Ed agree to raise her 11-year-old son, who, what with wearing makeup and lacy socks to school, challenges their expectations as well as society’s. Whereas Williams was flamboyant, Albee has been reticent but, Gussow’s vital biography shows, not uncomplicated or dull.ĭowning, Michael. Like Tennessee Williams before him, Albee is the foremost U.S. caps a 50-year career with his most elegant, eloquent, erotic, and intelligently gay collection. The foremost British poet living in the U.S. He discovered, with Andy, that a child’s love can make a man as well as a velveteen rabbit “real.” Then he fell for Andy, who had just adopted an infant and who, in good time, adopted another. Green assumed children would never be a part of his life. The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood. In his memoir of growing up gay, Doty, now an honored poet, demonstrates that responding to the movies, music, and literature sustained him during the isolation of knowing he was a possibly shamefully atypical boy. Alyson, paper, $13.95 (1-55583-524-4).Īnderson is a good, devoted coach who emphasizes his teen runners’ accomplishments more than his own in perhaps the most refreshingly, honorably modest coming-out memoir ever.ĭoty, Mark. Trailblazing: The True Story of America’s First Openly Gay Track Coach. That book, Chu T’ien-wen’s Notes of a Desolate Man, adds an intellectuality to gay fiction that seems distinctively Asian and distinctively worldly, even as it verifies that the hoary saw we cited last year, to the effect that gays are everywhere, is quite true. review magazine feature about a brand of literature that was pretty much invented in the U.S., there is one Chinese-to be exact, Taiwanese-title among the 10 gay and lesbian books most enthusiastically reviewed in Booklist during the past 12 months.