Ganymede was an independent literary/art print journal which published fiction, poetry, essays, reviews and portfolios of photography by and for gay men.[1]
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Founded in 2008 by the late John Stahle (1950-2010), Ganymede ran for seven issues, the first issue appearing in October 2008. The journal was published quarterly in New York City as a paperback book and spawned two anthologies: Ganymede Poets, One which collected all the poetry from the first six issues, and Ganymede Stories, One which collected all the fiction from the first six issues.[2]
Ganymede #1: 124 pp. New York's MoMA, Penelope Fitzgerald, ethnic eats in Queens. ESSAYS: Julian Grenfell, Deven J.C. DeMarco, Nando Rodriguez, Penelope Fitzgerald. FICTION AND POETRY by Ennis Smith and Ocean Vuong. PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIOS: Walter Kurtz, Matthew Brindle, Ludwig Übele. BOOK REVIEWS: Crompton's gay history, "Brideshead Revisited" and the new movie. Fiction by: Alan Bennett, Saki, Julian Barnes, Patricia Highsmith, David Leavitt, Edmund White, I.B. Singer, Colm Toibin, Ivan Turgenev. Nonfiction studies of: modern music, Nureyev, Proust, Russia, Max Perkins, Flannery O’Connor, Byzantine history, tycoons, postwar Europe, plus Elias Canetti's memoirs.[3]
Ganymede #2: 176 pp. Mark Jenkins, fascist art in Rome, decoding Oscar Wilde, indie flicks. ESSAYS AND REVIEWS: Philip F.Clark, Julian Grenfell, Robbie Ross, Rosa Bonheur, James Saslow, Laurent Hillaire. FICTION: Adam Jeffries Schwartz, John Stahle. POETRY: Matt Loney, David Ayllon. PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIOS: Mark Jenkins, Frank Gabriel, Marco Diaz, Stefano Corso, Cadi Cunha, Andy Houghton, Thomas Walshaw.[4]
Ganymede #3: 200 pp. Daniel Mendelsohn on Cavafy as a gay poet, Richard Canning on Saint Laurent, rare Glenway Wescott story. ESSAYS: "Fragments of a Gay Life: Saint Laurent’s Auction" by Richard Canning; "New York Notes: Wal-Mart...and Other Effects" by Julian Grenfell. POETRY: C.P. Cavafy, six poems selected and translated by Daniel Mendelsohn, Christopher Gaskins, Jase Donaldson, Cyril Wong. FICTION: Sam J. Miller, John Stahle, Glenway Wescott. PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIOS: Federico Forlani, Simón Pais-Thomas, Lawrence Grecco, Mario Leko, Dylan Rosser, Israel Marquez, David Saavedra, Kenny Wan, Jan Durina.[5]
Ganymede #4: 240 pp. Oscar Wilde, George Tooker, Bruce Nugent on 1920s gay Harlem, Matthew Rush. ESSAYS: "Filming Porn" with Matthew Rush; Ian Duncan: From Gay Teen to Porn Mogul. POETRY: Jee Leong Koh, James Newborg, Matthew Stradling, Jon Rentler, Dug McDowell, Zhuang Yisa, Matt Cogswell. FICTION: Ryan Doyle May, Adam Jeffries Schwartz, B.R. Lyon, Bruce Nugent, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde. ART PORTFOLIO: George Tooker. PHOTO PORTFOLIOS: Fabio Panichi, Andrea Francesco Berni, Daniel Schultz, René Becker, Pablo Moran, Costel Magopat, Davide Poggi.[6]
Ganymede #5: 344 pp. Edmund White, Oscar Wilde, Glenway Wescott, Susan Glaspell. ESSAYS: "Writing Gay" by Edmund White, "Indie Eye (2)" by Kush Varia, "The Decay of Lying" by Oscar Wilde, "Teenage Transformer" by Charlie Vásquez. POETRY by R.J. Gibson, Matthew Hittinger, Michael Montlack, Brian Brown, Ron Curlee, P. Viktor, David Bergman, Sean Patrick Conlon, Robert K. Müller, John Stahle. FICTION: Susan Glaspell, Marc Andreottola, Glenway Wescott, Boris Pintar, Scott Hess. ART PORTFOLIO: Swan Princes: Paintings of Hernan Bas. PHOTO PORTFOLIOS: Bastien Bucquet, Luis Alvarez, Andre Bernardo, Iain Clacher, Andrea Pedretti, Charles Marville and early photographers of Paris, Josiah Shelton, Niro Taub.[7]
Ganymede #6: 272 pp. David Sedaris, Denton Welch, Robert Louis Stevenson, book and film reviews, secrets of the Duchess of Windsor. POETRY by Edward Field, Walter Holland, Steven Cordova, Gregg Shapiro, R. Nemo Hill, Stephen S. Mills, Brandon Lacy Campos, Jeff Mann, Lee Houck, Eric Norris, Bryan Borland, Christopher S. Soden, Sergio Ortiz, Mark Milazzo. FICTION by Denton Welch, Charlie Vásquez, Cyrus Cassells, Wayne Hoffman, Eric Karl Anderson, Andrew J. Peters. ART PORTFOLIO: Today’s Painters of the Male Form. PHOTO PORTFOLIOS: Yannis Angel, Kent Mercurio, Jannis Tsipoulanis, Eric Phillips, Lars Stephan.[8]
Ganymede #7: 400 pp. Gregory Woods, Alfred Corn, Denton Welch, August Sander, second half of Scott Hess's novel "Bergdorf Boys," Charles Higham's 1965 interviews with the last great stars of Hollywood. POETRY by: Gregory Woods (Britain), Saeed Jones, Jesús Encinar (Spain), Christopher Hennessy, Brane Mozetic (Slovenia), Peter Swanborn (Netherlands), Joseph McGreevy, Christian Gullette, Joseph Harker, Ocean Vuong, Niels Frank (Denmark), Ivar Sild (Estonia), Dante Micheaux, Christopher Voigt, Angelo Nikolopoulos, John Stahle, Jameson Fitzpatrick, András Gerevich (Hungary), Jee Leong Koh, Abu Nuwas (Arabic, 756-814). FICTION by: Alfred Corn, Denton Welch, Robert Smith, Tim Tranchilla, John McFarland, Michael Mendolia, Jay Michaelson, Devon Gallegos, Abu Nuwas (from The Arabian Nights). PHOTO PORTFOLIOS by: August Sander, Fabio Panichi, Federico Forlani, Joseph Murawski, Robert Frank.[9]
Ganymede Poets, One: 172 pp. Anthology of 38 gay male English-language poets from around the world featured in the first six issues of the gay men's quarterly Ganymede. Contributor: David Ayllon, David Bergman, Bryan Borland, Brian Brown, Brandon Lacy Campos, C.P. Cavafy, Matt Cogswell, Sean Patrick Conlon, Steven Cordova, Ron Curlee, Jase Donaldson, Edward Field, Christopher Gaskins, R.J. Gibson, R. Nemo Hill, Matthew Hittinger, Walter Holland, Lee Houck, Jee Leong Koh, Matt Loney, Jeff Mann, Dug McDowell, Mark Milazzo, Stephen J. Mills, Michael Montlack, Robert Kulovec Müller, James Newborg, Eric Norris, Sergio Ortiz, Jon Rentler, Gregg Shapiro, Christopher Steven Soden, John Stahle, Matthew Stradling, P. Viktor, Ocean Vuong, Cyril Wong, Zhuang Yisa.[10]
Ganymede Stories, One: 207 pp. Anthology of 18 short stories by gay male English-language writers from around the world featured in the first six issues of the gay men's quarterly Ganymede. Contributors: Eric Karl Anderson, Marc Andreottola, Cyrus Cassells, Wayne Hoffman, B.R. Lyon, Ryan Doyle May, Sam J. Miller, Andrew J. Peters, Boris Pintar, Adam Jeffries Schwartz, Ennis Smith, John Stahle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlie Vásquez, Oscar Wilde.[11]
"It is easy to see how these premier issues would become collectors items — they’re timeless, in a way, and timely at the same time."--Homo-Neurotic.com[12]
"Issue #4 offers an enormous amount of stimulating prose and photography to enjoy. Ganymede is gaining momentum and is definitely the journal to watch."--Chroma[13]
"An incredible collector’s item that will entice the senses and evoke emotion as well as thought." --Rainbow Reviews, in review of Ganymede Stories, One[14]
"There is more queer life between these covers than in virtually any gay novel you might care to name. The difference is that, here, you can’t rely on the infantile joys of passively listening to a linear narrative and waiting for what’s going to happen to happen. Here, a whole world of queerness will pass before your eyes (and through your ears) in a fragmented and contingent order (the authors are presented alphabetically), raucous with expressions of desire and longing, articulated by a range of voices, mostly young but otherwise pretty varied in attitude and background; and you will feel at times a part of it all, and at others apart from it all. Read it as a strangely irrational postmodern novel—with sexy pictures."--Gregory Woods on Ganymede Poets, One for Chroma[15]
Ganymede Unfinished: 314 pp. August 2010. Includes work by Perry Brass (essay), Jee Leong Koh (poetry), Matthew Hittinger (poetry), Alexander Grafy Gale (poetry), Sergio Ortiz (photography and poetry), Ocean Vuong (poetry), Jeff Mann (poetry), Eric Norris (poetry), Steven Cordova (poetry), Stephen S. Mills (poetry), Joseph Harker (poetry), Michael Cluff (poetry), Walter Holland (poetry), Brian Brown (poetry), BR Belletryst (photography and poetry), Matthew Loney (poetry), Seth Ruggles Hiler (drawings), Amos Lassen (review), Jørgen Lien (essay), Philip F. Clark (essay), Scott Hess (novella), Eric Davis (photography), Charlie Vázquez (fiction), Garrett Graham (interview), and Nico Corvalán (photography). It also includes John Stahle’s final designs for Ganymede, which feature Digby Mackworth Dolben (poetry), Geer Austin (poetry), Evan J. Peterson (poetry), Derrick Austin (poetry), Kevin Simmonds (poetry), Bryan Borland (poetry), Rickey Laurentiis (poetry), Brooks Peters (essay), and Mark Milazzo (poetry). Edited by Bryan Borland.[16]