William Gay Was Never Too By for Life’s Smaller Moments ‹ Lerary Hub

Contents:

• POSIVELY WILLIAM GAY
• TENNSEE WILLIAMS’ PATGS EXPLORED BEG GAY AMERI
• WILLIAM GAY YORKE
• WILLIAM GAY WAS NEVER TOO BY FOR LIFE’S SMALLER MOMENTS
• WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70; WRER TIED TO TENNSEE
• WALTER GAY

POSIVELY WILLIAM GAY

” –William Gay.

When I took that first tentative step up to William Gay’s b Hohenwald, time seemed to stand still. Make no mistake about , this is William Gay’s world; I am a fan, and he knows .

In between sips of ffee, Gay l many cigarett.

TENNSEE WILLIAMS’ PATGS EXPLORED BEG GAY AMERI

William Gay grew up Grrs Creek near a serted mg town—a place where he bas his well-known fictnal wasteland, the Harrik. From an early age, Gay has read voracly and knew he wanted to bee a great wrer.

It’s poetic that the lerary muny at large has dubbed Gay the heir to the Flkner legacy. In a , Gay’s lerary rume has gone om dimutive to monstratively imprsive.

In 2007, Gay was named a USA Ford Foundatn Fellow. On the horizon are Gay’s wily anticipated fourth novel, The Lost Country, and the film Provc of Night wh Kris Kristofferson playg a ma character. To add to that, Gay is masterful at openg l.

WILLIAM GAY YORKE

Beg William Gay’s world, was as if I stepped right to any one of his novels. Today, Gay was ready for wh a flowg pot of ffee and an endls stream of cigarett. – William Gay, The Lost Country.

(Michael) Whe has published two volum of William Gay's prose. As a rult he end up as the steward for the William Gay archive and has worked wh a team of William's iends and fans to prepare the massive amount of material the archive for publitn. As one of the edors of the revered mancripts of William Gay, I am que proud to be volved wh sendg a new flock of William’s tal to fly brilliantly about the world.

She was privileged to spend time wh William Gay and his dog Knuckl so was a joy to work on unravelg and transcribg some of William's handwrten mancripts. She is proud to be part of Team Gay and some small way help to perpetuate his remarkable legacy! She wrote her master cril this on the supernatural elements on William Gay’s body of work and sce that time has worked wh the William Gay Archive providg edorial assistance to publish his posthumo works.

WILLIAM GAY WAS NEVER TOO BY FOR LIFE’S SMALLER MOMENTS

She enjoys lecturg about William Gay’s prose and artwork at lerary nferenc and ftivals.

Her advocy wh the William Gay Archive has led her to promote southern thors and lerature through her blog. At The New York Tim, Michael Adno exam the patgs of Amerin playwright Tennsee Williams, who ed the visual medium to explore what meant to be gay Ameri durg the ’70s. The novelist Edmund Whe, whose name has bee synonymo wh gay lerature, believed that Williams’s plays “Cat on a Hot T Roof” and “A Streetr Named Dire” were — a veiled way — exprsns of gay sire.

Whe said a telephone terview, addg that this work ma gay life more visible to him — and to Ameri — when he was growg up the 1950s. “Certaly, as a young gay kid, I turned on to that work tremendoly.

WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70; WRER TIED TO TENNSEE

”Beyond his plays, Williams’s patgs were a means to lve to subjects like what meant to be a gay man Ameri. In a lerary voice that is both origal and powerfully unsettlg, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Wer, a young and headstrong Tennsee rpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy n image - until he learns of first-hand. Gay's remarkable but novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a betiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who regniz even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at pe.

WALTER GAY

’s grandson, is pleased wh the old man’s homeg, but Flemg’s life is soon to reen down an unpredictable path hewn by the betiful Raven Lee the great Southern tradn of Flkner, Styron, and Cormac McCarthy, William Gay wields a prose as evotive and lh as the hnted and humid world picts. William Gay expertly sets the nflicted characters agast lh backuntry scenery and fi our moral logic as we grow to love them for the weight of their human 2009 film, That Eveng Sun, was based on the short story I Hate to See That Eveng Sun Go Down.