A Visit To Priapus And Other Stories
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A Visit To Priapus And Other Stories
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Author : Glenway Wescott
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2013-11-29
A Visit To Priapus And Other Stories written by Glenway Wescott and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-29 with Fiction categories.
Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story "A Visit to Priapus" was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried from 1938 until this century in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebooks, and letters. The autobiographical story is about a literary man, frustrated in love, who puts aside his pride and makes a date with a young artist in Maine. Lavishly rendered in Wescott's elegant prose, the tale is explicit where it needs to be, but—as is typical of Wescott—it is filled with descriptive beauty and introspective lessons about sex and sexuality, love and creativity. Previously published in anthology form in the United Kingdom, "A Visit to Priapus" is presented for the first time in book form in America, containing previously uncollected stories, including three never before published. The result is a candid portrayal of the gifted but enigmatic writer who was famous in youth and remained a perceptive and compassionate voice throughout his long life. Drawn together from midcentury literary journals and magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as from Wescott's papers, the stories were inspired by his life, from childhood to old age, from Wisconsin farm country to New York, London, Germany, and Paris. Finalist, Gay General Fiction, Lambda Literary Awards
George Platt Lynes
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Author : Allen Ellenzweig
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
George Platt Lynes written by Allen Ellenzweig and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Photography categories.
George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye is a life of the gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. From age 18, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Intending to pursue a literary and small press publishing career, Lynes also began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette. Soon, he turned exclusively to photography, establishing himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the early ballets of George Balanchine, and pursuing his private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes almost never published in his time. Lynes's private life was as glamorous and theatrical as his images with their brilliant studio lighting and dramatic Surrealist set-ups. Barely out his teens, he met the publisher Monroe Wheeler who was already in a relationship with the emerging expatriate novelist Glenway Wescott. The peripatetic threesome maintained a polyamorous connection that lasted some 15 years. Their New York apartment became a mecca for elegant cocktail and name-dropping dinner parties. Their ménage-à-trois complicates our understanding of the pre-Stonewall gay "closet." This biography, drawing upon intimate letters and an unpublished memoir of Lynes's life by his brother, writer and editor Russell Lynes, paints a portrait of the emerging influence of gays and lesbians in the visual, literary, and performing arts that defined transatlantic cosmopolitan culture and presaged later gay political activism.
Gordon Merrick And The Great Gay American Novel
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Author : Joseph M. Ortiz
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-05-23
Gordon Merrick And The Great Gay American Novel written by Joseph M. Ortiz and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel is the first biography of Gordon Merrick, the most commercially successful writer of gay novels in the twentieth century. This book shows how Merrick’s novels were largely based on his own life and time as a Princeton theater star, a Broadway actor, a New York reporter, an OSS spy, and the friend of countless artists and celebrities as an expatriate in France, Greece, and Sri Lanka. He lived much of his life as an openly gay man with his longtime partner, Charles Hulse. His 1970 novel, The Lord Won’t Mind, broke new ground by showing that an affirming, explicitly gay novel could be a bestseller. His subsequent gay novels were both a cultural phenomenon and a lightning rod for literary critics. This book also examines the complex, often conflicting responses to Merrick’s novels by gay readers and critics, and it thus recovers the early post-Stonewall debates over the definition of “gay literature.” By reconstructing Merrick’s life and critical fortunes, this book expands our understanding of what it means to be a gay man in the twentieth century.
Dictionary Of Midwestern Literature Volume Two
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Author : Philip A. Greasley
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-08
Dictionary Of Midwestern Literature Volume Two written by Philip A. Greasley and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-08 with Literary Collections categories.
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
The New Penguin Book Of Gay Short Stories
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Author : David Leavitt
language : en
Publisher: Viking
Release Date : 2003
The New Penguin Book Of Gay Short Stories written by David Leavitt and has been published by Viking this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
The diversity - and unity - of gay love and experience in the 20th century is celebrated in this acclaimed anthology, which includes 21 stories from the first edition, together with 15 additional tales. The texts range from the tender unarticulated longings of D.H. Lawrence's A Poem for Friendship to the explicitly sexual.
Apartment In Athens
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Author : Glenway Wescott
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2011-07-06
Apartment In Athens written by Glenway Wescott and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-06 with Fiction categories.
A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years Like Wescott’s extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging “among the treasures of 20th-century American literature”), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion—an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.
The Visit And Other Stories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Visit And Other Stories written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
The Writers Directory
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Writers Directory written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Authors, American categories.
A Heaven Of Words
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Author : Glenway Wescott
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2013-06-28
A Heaven Of Words written by Glenway Wescott and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From humble beginnings on a poor Wisconsin farm, the author went on to study at the University of Chicago, narrowly survive the Spanish flu pandemic, and eventually emerge as an influential poet and novelist. A major figure in the American literary expatriate community in Paris during the 1920s and a prominent American novelist in the years leading up to World War II, he spent a decade living abroad before relocating permanently to New York and New Jersey with his partner, Museum of Modern Art publications director and curator Monroe Wheeler. Together they mixed with such intellectual and creative greats as Jean Cocteau, Colette, George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Somerset Maugham, Christopher Isherwood, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Truman Capote, Joseph Campbell, and scores of other luminaries. During the second half of his life, Wescott wrote nonfiction essays and worked for the Academy Institute of Arts and Letters, all the while keeping journals in which he recorded the experiences that fostered his love of life, literature, the arts, and humanity.--Publisher's description.
Voorbij De Grenzen
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Author : Rudi Meulemans
language : nl
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
Release Date : 2017-02-11
Voorbij De Grenzen written by Rudi Meulemans and has been published by Overamstel Uitgevers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-11 with Travel categories.
De Amerikaanse schrijver Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was bevriend met E.M. Forster, Truman Capote, Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan, Henri Matisse en William Somerset Maugham. Naast zijn levensgezel Monroe Wheeler (directeur van het Museum of Modern Art) had hij verschillende geliefden, onder wie de fotograaf George Platt Lynes en dokter Alfred Kinsey, met wie hij de grenzen van de seksualiteit verkende. In zijn jeugd publiceerde Wescott drie bestsellers en daarna niets meer. Nochtans bleef hij zijn hele leven schrijven. Zijn dagboeken, brieven en losse notities worden bewaard in de Beinecke Library van Yale University. Daar gaat Rudi Meulemans naar hem op zoek. Voorbij de grenzen is het verslag van een fascinerende literaire pelgrimage, maar ook een intiem portret van het literaire en artistieke leven in het Amerika van voor en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Gaandeweg gaat Meulemans steeds meer affiniteit voelen met de overleden schrijver. Is een vriendschap over de dood heen mogelijk?