Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. But we need not worry: s/he had the good sense to avoid it, and hir novel is better for it.
One shudders to think how a workshop might have sapped Feinberg's vision and passion.
This book is also proof that not every novel now has to come out of a workshop or from someone with an MFA in Creative Writing. Below, ten favorite queer books, in no special order.ġ.) Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg - Arrestingly plainspoken, deeply felt, passionate, heartbreaking, and yet profoundly consoling and hopeful. He has directed and performed his own work for the stage in New York at Dixon Place, The Cornelia Street Cafe, HERE Arts Center, the Dramatists Guild, the Flea Theater, and in the eighth New York International Fringe Festival in 2004. He has published short fiction in Christopher Street, The James White Review, Blithe House Quarterly, Velvet Mafia, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, Lode-star Quarterly, and other periodicals, and in the anthologies His 3, Men Seeking Men, and Freshmen 2. I would love to be able to join them sometime, for now I will please myself by "hosting" David on my LiveJournal.ĭavid Pratt's first novel, Bob the Book, is published by Chelsea Station Editions in New York. David came by introduction of Jameson Currier, they share the same publisher, and I think the same coffee table here and there.
I'm now even more eager to do that since David's Inside Reader List is one of the most interesting and original I have posted till now. I have David's new book in my reading list and I will try to read it as soon as possible. Elisa_rolle Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends - Silas Weir Mitchell
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