I have decided to read instead of watch the war

[+ Axiom2001]

Don't forget about Patricia Nell Warren's FRONT RUNNER.

I immersed myself in this book at the time and really connected with the protagonists. (fiction) :9

[PacNW]

New since this thread originally ran:

 

Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty. Involved with Art, British politics, and life with the snobs, Hollinghurst's greatest achievement is not coming off as a snob himself. Sometimes blackly funny (the climax of the second part is great in its over-the-top absurdity), it also ties up its various strings very satisfactorily in the end.

 

And of course, not mentioned elsewhere on here, there's always Patricia Highsmith. She too has a biography out in the last couple of years that I mean to read. In the meantime I always enjoy many of her wicked stories and novels.

[+ Lucky]

Mary Renault takes the cake as far as I am concerned. Her ability to write the feelings of a gay man are amazing, and her ability to make a story come to life are enthralling.

 

I just finished her 1953 novel The Charioteer, about a love a soldier felt in wartime 1940. The book was very forward for its time and is quite interesting to read with the knowledge of how gay life has developed since then. (Things are easier now, aren't they?)

 

And, don't we miss Will?

[+ Charlie]

We do miss Will, indeed.

[Spida]

I don't know if they were mentioned, I am too add to read through all the posts so I apologize.

 

Great book "Running with Scisors" by Augustine Burrows and not gay themed his other books are great Sellivision!

 

David Sedaris, he is funny, touching and a great writer. A good book is one by Larry Kramer the guy who I think started the group Act Up, called Faggots. While these are not classics they may be some day cause they are great books.

 

Also Steven McCauley is a gay man from Boston who is becoming a great writer also!

[splendidpup]

Not that I've really read either one all that recently, but I go back to these two quite a bit:

 

"The Folding Star" by Alan Hollinghurst. Yeah, I know that "The Swimming Pool Library" is more well-known(and dirtier), but I think "TFS" is a more satisfying read.

 

"Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth" by Paul Delaney. Probably one of the more gossipy literary biographies out there about hot Edwardian poets:-)

 

Ben