Brad Gooch

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Brad Gooch is an American writer.

Born and raised in suburban Pennsylvania. Graduate of Columbia University. His book Jailbait and Other Stories was selected by Donald Barthelme for a Pushcart Foundation Writer's Choice Award. His writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Partisan Review, Bomb, the New Republic, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Out, New York, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Nation, Travel + Leisure, and American Poetry Review.

His most acclaimed work is a biography of the poet Frank O'Hara, City Poet. His book, Finding the Boyfriend Within, calls for gay men to cultivate self-respect by cultivating an imaginary lover.

Professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He has lived in New York City since 1971.

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Billy Idol
Zombie 00
Scary Kisses
The Golden Age of Promiscuity
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara
Jailbait and Other Stories
The Daily News (poetry)
Finding the Boyfriend Within
Dating the Greek Gods
(essay in) Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, Patrick Merla (ed.) Avon Books. 1996