Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Cullum
I'm not sure how I heard of E. Arnot Robertson's Cullum and decided I wanted to read it. I must have found it mentioned and discussed online somewhere, but even though it was only a couple of months ago, I can't remember where. No matter; I just finished reading it, and I'm knocked out by it.Robertson (1903-1961) was a broadcaster, lecturer and film critic as well as a novelist. Cullum was her
Cullum
I'm not sure how I heard of E. Arnot Robertson's Cullum and decided I wanted to read it. I must have found it mentioned and discussed online somewhere, but even though it was only a couple of months ago, I can't remember where. No matter; I just finished reading it, and I'm knocked out by it.Robertson (1903-1961) was a broadcaster, lecturer and film critic as well as a novelist. Cullum was her
Relatively Fabulous
I promised to post this last week, so here it is. I wrote it for a local gay newspaper that didn't give me much space, so it's more compact than most of my writing, but I think it says all that needed to be said about the book.The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, by Daniel HarrisNew York: Hyperion, 1997$22Once upon a time, in a galaxy far away, there was a gay culture. It was made up of willowy
Relatively Fabulous
I promised to post this last week, so here it is. I wrote it for a local gay newspaper that didn't give me much space, so it's more compact than most of my writing, but I think it says all that needed to be said about the book.The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, by Daniel HarrisNew York: Hyperion, 1997$22Once upon a time, in a galaxy far away, there was a gay culture. It was made up of willowy
Nebraska
Another book review for Gay Community News, published in the April 30-May 6, 1989 issue. As I feared, Whitmore died between the time I wrote the review and the time it appeared in print. Rereading the review now, I wonder if I should reread Nebraska, but I really have little interest in stories which pile on the misery for no evident reason except, I suppose, to show the author's High
Nebraska
Another book review for Gay Community News, published in the April 30-May 6, 1989 issue. As I feared, Whitmore died between the time I wrote the review and the time it appeared in print. Rereading the review now, I wonder if I should reread Nebraska, but I really have little interest in stories which pile on the misery for no evident reason except, I suppose, to show the author's High
This Ain't Rock'n'Roll, This Is ...
This review appeared in the April 30-May 6, 1989 issue of Gay Community News. It garnered an angry letter from Barrus, published an issue or so later; I don't blame him, but I still stand by the review. Why did GCN send me the book? I have no idea -- one of the disadvantages of living a thousand miles away from the paper, in the days before e-mail was ubiquitous. The editor at the time, if I
This Ain't Rock'n'Roll, This Is ...
This review appeared in the April 30-May 6, 1989 issue of Gay Community News. It garnered an angry letter from Barrus, published an issue or so later; I don't blame him, but I still stand by the review. Why did GCN send me the book? I have no idea -- one of the disadvantages of living a thousand miles away from the paper, in the days before e-mail was ubiquitous. The editor at the time, if I
Protesting Too Much
If I hadn’t already seen Joseph Massad’s Desiring Arabs (Columbia, 2007), I’d have been surprised that straight critic Robert Eberwein’s Armed Forces: masculinity and sexuality in the American war film (Rutgers, 2007) could be published by an academic press today. Besides, I’d already noticed that gay (and lesbian and queer, whatever) academics are capable of amazing foolishness on the most
Protesting Too Much
If I hadn’t already seen Joseph Massad’s Desiring Arabs (Columbia, 2007), I’d have been surprised that straight critic Robert Eberwein’s Armed Forces: masculinity and sexuality in the American war film (Rutgers, 2007) could be published by an academic press today. Besides, I’d already noticed that gay (and lesbian and queer, whatever) academics are capable of amazing foolishness on the most
Is It Not Time For My Painkiller?
If I say so myself, the best reviews I wrote for Gay Community News were of books related to religion. GCN spoiled me, partly because they depended so much on volunteer writers to fill up the pages, so I got to write extended essay-reviews that made me feel like a writer for the New York Review of Books.This one, published in 1988 or so, is one I'm proudest of. The first title was supplied by
Is It Not Time For My Painkiller?
If I say so myself, the best reviews I wrote for Gay Community News were of books related to religion. GCN spoiled me, partly because they depended so much on volunteer writers to fill up the pages, so I got to write extended essay-reviews that made me feel like a writer for the New York Review of Books.This one, published in 1988 or so, is one I'm proudest of. The first title was supplied by
Footnote Fetishism
Another book review for Gay Community News, published in 1989 or 1990. I really must reread Who Was That Man? soon. Morris B Kaplan's Sodom on the Thames: sex, love, and scandal in Wilde times (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2005) and Alan Sinfield's The Wilde Century (Columbia, 1994) have covered the same period and milieu interestingly. Kaplan misunderstands Foucault, as so many writers
Footnote Fetishism
Another book review for Gay Community News, published in 1989 or 1990. I really must reread Who Was That Man? soon. Morris B Kaplan's Sodom on the Thames: sex, love, and scandal in Wilde times (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2005) and Alan Sinfield's The Wilde Century (Columbia, 1994) have covered the same period and milieu interestingly. Kaplan misunderstands Foucault, as so many writers
Wilde In The Streets
Here's another review for Gay Community News, published in the January 15-21, 1989 issue. The caricature above is by Max Beerbohm, a younger contemporary and friend of Wilde's who outlived him by more than half a century.Oscar Wildeby Richard EllmannNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988680 pp. Oscar Wilde's London: a Scrapbook of Vices and Virtues 1880-1900by Wolf Von Eckardt, Sander L.
Wilde In The Streets
Here's another review for Gay Community News, published in the January 15-21, 1989 issue. The caricature above is by Max Beerbohm, a younger contemporary and friend of Wilde's who outlived him by more than half a century.Oscar Wildeby Richard EllmannNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988680 pp. Oscar Wilde's London: a Scrapbook of Vices and Virtues 1880-1900by Wolf Von Eckardt, Sander L.
The World As I Found It
Another book review for Gay Community News, published in the January 15-21, 1989 issue.No one seems to dispute it now, but as far as I recall, there was controversy over the fact of Wittgenstein's homosexuality into the 1980s -- maybe even as late as the publication of Duffy's novel. And it was philosophers who were throwing hissyfits over it; but I've read enough philosophy that I should know
The World As I Found It
Another book review for Gay Community News, published in the January 15-21, 1989 issue.No one seems to dispute it now, but as far as I recall, there was controversy over the fact of Wittgenstein's homosexuality into the 1980s -- maybe even as late as the publication of Duffy's novel. And it was philosophers who were throwing hissyfits over it; but I've read enough philosophy that I should know
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