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- REMEMBERG THE GREAT GAY AMERIN WRER, HENRY JAM, ON HIS 180TH BIRTHDAY
SWEATER WEATHERSUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"HENRY JAM IS SUPER GAY","SCRIPTN":"HELLO IENDS-- THIS WEEK\U2019S THURSDAY LETTER IS REALLY A FRIDAY LETTER. FIRST SOME NEWS: MY SHORT STORY \U201CAS THOUGH THAT WERE LOVE\U201D APPEARS THE NEWT ISSUE OF AMERIN SHORT FICTN, ALONGSI SOME TLY SPECTATOR STORI. GO CHECK OUT. I\U2019M REALLY THRILLED TO HAVE PLACED A STORY AT THAT JOURNAL. IT\U2019S BEEN A GOAL OF ME EVER SCE I STARTED SENDG STORI OUT. THEY\U2019VE PUBLISHED SOME OF MY FAVORE WRERS, AND SO THIS IS A REAL DREAM E TE FOR ME.","IMAGE":[],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-08-16T16:30:51+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-08-16T16:30:51+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"BRANDON","URL":","SCRIPTN":"BRANDON TAYLOR IS THE THOR OF REAL LIFE AND FILTHY ANIMALS. HIS WRG HAS APPEARED THE NEW YORK TIM, THE NEW YORKER ONLE, THE CUT, O: THE OPRAH MAGAZE, AND ELSEWHERE. ","INTIFIER":"ER:13679","IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"SWEATER WEATHER","URL":","SCRIPTN":"SAYS ABOUT LERATURE, CULTURE, AND SO MANY FEELGS.","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":10000},"INTIFIER":"PUB:14343","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTHENRY JAM IS SUPER COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERHENRY JAM IS SUPER GAY
He rmed the fay when a scholar he met at a nference exprsed an tert Jam’s homoerotic rrponnce. Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick beme the bible for gay studi and queer theory universi. It proposed an entire new way of readg Jam as a gay wrer whose efforts to rema the closet gave him his style and may, fact, have been his real subject, all the more prent for beg secret and submerged.
In other words, was Henry Jam homosexual? The standard life of Jam, Leon El’s five-volume bgraphy, was published a time, primarily the 1950’s and 1960’s, when ratnal treatment of homosexualy was still nsired non-circumspect, so El is nearly mum on the subject. In his revised, abridged versn of the same work, published the 1980’s, he fally acknowledg the possibily of Jam’s homosexualy but do so wh obv reticence.
Still El was sufficiently fascated by Jam’s sex life to mend an article by gay wrer and cric Richard Hall The New Republic which alt wh Jam’s sexualy and that drew the ncln that Jam harbored an tense fixatn on his olr brother William which borred on the erotic. Rowse’s idsyncratic, biblgraphy-ee, but very entertag Homosexuals History: A Study of Ambivalence Society, Lerature, and The Arts (1977), whose tle pretty much says all.
REMEMBERG THE GREAT GAY AMERIN WRER, HENRY JAM, ON HIS 180TH BIRTHDAY
Among them are John Bradley’s Henry Jam and Homo-Erotic Dire (1998) and Eric Haralson’s Henry Jam and Queer Morny (2003). The above books, and others, study the way homosexualy fs to both Jam’s life and his work.
It is unclear jt how far Jam’s relatnships wh the men went, whether or not they tly crossed the bounds to the homosexual. While he may have been homo-erotilly oriented, his greatt love no doubt remaed his work. $ a while, durg the Gay Neti of their rpective centuri, the Amerin wrer Henry Jam and the Irish wrer Colm Toib -- whose remarkable new novel is about Jam -- were faced wh the same embarrassg problem.
Daniel Sargent Curtis, a great Amerin hosts who lived a great Veian palazzo, to wre an appreciatn of the wrer John Addgton Symonds, the athete, Italophile and early csar for the rights of homosexuals, who had died a uple of years before. '' A few months later, Jam published the short story ''The Author of 'Beltraff, ' '' a small masterpiece of lite luridns which the nflict between the athete (whose book, like Symonds's say fense of homosexualy, had provoked a sndal) and his disapprovg wife for posssn of their small, ''extraordarily betiful'' son ends wh the mother allowg the boy to die rather than belong to his exactly a century after Jam, actg out of a profound disfort at the possibily of self-exposure, turned down the ocsn to wre explicly about homosexualy, the Irish journalist and novelist Colm Toib did more or ls the same thg, for more or ls the same reasons. In the preface to the Brish edn of his 2001 llectn of says about gay wrers and artists, ''Love a Dark Time: And Other Exploratns of Gay Liv and Lerature, '' Toib scrib how he reiled after beg ved 1993 by an edor at The London Review of Books to wre about his homosexualy: ''I told him stantly that I uldn't do that, '' Toib rells.