The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, edited by Tom Cardamone, includes appreciations by 28 contemporary writers of significant gay novels and short story collections now out of print. The Lost Library includes an essay on reprints of gay literature by Philip Clark. Published in March 2010, it features a cover illustration by Mel Odom.

Table of contents

Introduction Tom Cardamone

  1. Rabih Alameddine, The Perv: Stories — Michael Graves
  2. Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers — Christopher Bram
  3. Neil Bartlett, Ready to Catch Him, Should He Fall — Philip Clark
  4. George Baxt, A Queer Kind of Death — Larry Duplechan
  5. Bruce Benderson, User — Rob Stephenson
  6. Christopher Coe, Such Times — Jameson Currier
  7. Daniel Curzon, Something You Do in the Dark — Jesse Monteagudo
  8. Melvin Dixon, Vanishing Rooms — Ian Rafael Titus
  9. John Donovan, I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip — Martin Wilson
  10. Robert Ferro, The Blue Star — Stephen Greco
  11. John Gilgun, Music I Never Dreamed Of — Wayne Courtois
  12. Agustin Gomez-Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb — Richard Reitsma
  13. Michael Grumley, Life Drawing — Sam Miller
  14. Lynn Hall, Sticks and Stones — Sean Meriwether
  15. Richard Hall, Couplings — Jonathan Harper
  16. J.S. Marcus, The Captain’s Fire — Aaron Hamburger
  17. James McCourt, Time Remaining — Tim Young
  18. Mark Merlis, American Studies — Rick Whitaker
  19. Charles Nelson, The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up — Jim Marks
  20. Kyle Onstott and Lance Horner, Child of the Sun — Michael Bronski
  21. Roger Peyrefitte, The Exile of Capri — Gregory Woods
  22. Paul Reed, Longing — Bill Brent
  23. Paul Rogers, Saul's Book — Paul Russell
  24. Patrick Roscoe, Birthmarks — Andy Quan
  25. Douglas Sadownick, Sacred Lips of the Bronx — Tom Cardamone
  26. Glenway Wescott, The Apple of the Eye — Jerry Rosco
  27. George Whitmore, Nebraska — Victor Bumbalo
  28. Donald Windham, Two People, Philip Gambone
  29. Come Again: A History of the Reprinting of Gay Novels, Philip Clark

Awards

The Lost Library won the San Francisco Book Festival's gay category for best book of the spring season, and was named one of the 10 best nonfiction books of 2010 in Richard Labonté's Book Marks column.

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