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• THE LOST LIBRARY: GAY FICTN REDISVERED
• THE LOST LIBRARY: GAY FICTN REDISVERED EDED BY TOM CARDAMONE
• THE LOST LIBRARY: GAY FICTN REDISVERED (2010)
• THE LOST LIBRARY : GAY FICTN REDISVERED
• THE LOST LIBRARY: GAY FICTN REDISVERED - SOFTVER
• THE LOST LIBRARY: GAY FICTN REDISVERED PAPERBACK – JANUARY 1, 2010
• THE LOST LIBRARY: GAY FICTN REDISVERED (2010-03-01)

THE LOST LIBRARY: GAY FICTN REDISVERED

Books are years the makg, and was a few years ago that Tom Cardamone, asked whether I'd be terted ntributg an say to a llectn about favoure gay books that were out-of-prt. It seemed somehow obscure to me, gay wrers wrg about books no longer available.

To unter the possibily of the book beg too amic, too oteric, I wrote my say wh a particular tent - I would talk about why the book appealed to me an accsible way, how related to my journey as a gay man and a wrer, and knowg that others may not possibly ever read , monstrate a b of the book's bety (My choice was Patrick Rose's "Birthmarks".

)I was amed on readg the fally-published book, a betiful edn by Haid Prs - geo ver and a lic feel to the pag - that this was the approach taken by most ntributors, and that the llectn is not obscure, but an tertg and unique approach to gay history and gay men's liv featurg engagg and lively prose about somethg we love and why we loved . As much as lerary mer, the books featured this anthology, poted ways for gay men to survive, live and love, gave hope and possibily, and told that we were not was a fascatg social history to disver so many works wh gay ntent wrten at tim wh so much gay opprsn, whether a 1924 novel by Glenway Wttt, or young adult novels om 1969 and 1972. The breadth of the llectn (there are 28 says all) spans a long perd of gay history.

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Many of the early books reviewed featured rich, olr gay men wh much younger lovers, livg high society New York or European ci, some volved wh htlers; this was followed by an exploratn of the many novels to e out of the early years of the AIDS epimic. Another major strand is about gay men lookg for and fdg themselv (or who they hoped to be) whether more recent novels featurg black gay characters, awkward gay teenagers, or men facg opprsn, or love, or at play.

I found tertg how often ntributors knew the thors of the books they wrote about, as iends and lleagu, or perhaps bee they'd tracked them down as fans: a ment both on how small the gay lerary world is but also how emotnal ti affect how we view art. At the same time, is a meetg of wrers, who are often the tra of pturg memori and romanticizg the past, and gay sensibily, which often is about wantg to be someone else or wantg to be a better self, or feelg "special" or "different" and turng that uniquens to advantage. Bill Brent quot an unpublished passage by Pl Reed about a man who spends so much time longg for his past that he turned regret to an if this melancholy don't appeal to you, I thk any gay man terted gay inty and history will fd "The Lost Library" engagg, be swept to nversatns about why and how we love men, the moments we knew we were gay, the realizatns that life would be jt fe, and the signposts, the form of books, that showed the way.

Not only about books, this anthology has fe wrg , which mak a good tribute to the gay wrers featured.

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The ia of gay and lbian people existg was no surprise to me, but the fact that I had iated a same-genr romance a vioMore.

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(4)None"Twenty-eight morn gay thors remisce about their favore out of prt gay novels, brgg the texts to light and tellg timate stori of their own.

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THE LOST LIBRARY: GAY FICTN REDISVERED PAPERBACK – JANUARY 1, 2010

The Lost Library: Gay Fictn Redisvered. Twenty-eight morn gay thors remisce about their favore out of prt gay novels, brgg the texts to light and tellg timate stori of their own. The lost library: gay fictn redisvered.

"Twenty-eight morn gay thors remisce about their favore out of prt gay novels, brgg the texts to light and tellg timate stori of their own. Marc, The pta's fire / Aaron Hamburger -- Jam McCourt, Time remag / Tim Young -- Mark Merlis, Amerin studi / Rick Whaker -- Charl Nelson, The boy who picked the bullets up / Jim Marks -- Kyle Onstott & Lance Horner, Child of the sun / Michael Bronski -- Roger Peyrefte, The exile of Capri / Gregory Woods -- Pl Reed, Longg / Bill Brent -- Pl Rogers, Sl's book / Pl Rsell -- Patrick Rose, Birthmarks / Andy Quan -- Douglas Sadownick, Sacred lips of the Bronx / Tom Cardamone -- Glenway Wtt, The apple of the eye / Jerry Ros -- Gee Whmore, Nebraska / Victor Bumbalo -- Donald Wdham, Two people / Philip Gambon -- Come aga: a history of the reprtg of gay novels / Philip Clark. Gay thors -- Books and readg.

Gay men's wrgs. Gay men lerature. Homosexualy and lerature.

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Jon Collectn of Gay and Lbian Lerature.

The Lost Library: Gay Fictn Redisvered2010 book / From Wikipedia, the ee encyclopedia The Lost Library: Gay Fictn Redisvered, eded by Tom Cardamone, clus appreciatns by 28 ntemporary wrers of signifint gay novels and short story llectns now out of prt. [1] The Lost Library clus an say on reprts of gay lerature by Philip Clark. The Lost Library: Gay Fictn Redisveredby Tom Cardamone, Andy Quan, Michael Grav, et Ctomer ReviewsTwenty-eight morn gay thors remisce about their favore out of prt gay novels, brgg the texts to light and tellg timate stori of their own.

Come aga: a history of the reprtg of gay novels -- Philip Clark. The Lost Library: Gay Fictn Redisvered, eded by Tom Cardamone, clus appreciatns by 28 ntemporary wrers of signifint gay novels and short story llectns now out of prt. The Lost Library clus an say on reprts of gay lerature by Philip Clark.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on May 25, 2010In his troductn to THE LOST LIBRARY Tom Cardamone says that he e-mailed thors he had recently read and wrers he knew personally about out-of-prt books that had had an impact some fashn on their liv as gay men. He remd that gay teens are three tim more likely to m suici than other young people, a soberg statistic. Others wrote of beg embarrassed when they checked out a gay novel a school library or when they bought the book a bookstore and of the joy of fdg out that they were not alone, even when the book may not have measured up as first class lerature.

He should also add MARK by Lonnie Coleman--certaly a romanticized view of gay life but ten tim better than Gordon Merrick's tton ndy-- and anythg the brilliant French wrer Yv Navarre wrote. But not only did we lose gay wrers to AIDS. "THE LOST LIBRARY-- a betiful tle-- should be required readg for those of who want to know more about our gay lerary history.

And that might be the most valuable lson of all--'s sort of a gay shame textbook a certa light, for some of the most tertg and amazg work was done by those forebears who believed the sndal, the disgt, the s and the shame that nowadays we don't even see, for today sex is cellophane, visible and unstaable.

What about all those s between, Tom Cardamone, did no one have anythg to say about the gay cultural productn of all those years of shared social stggle?