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P.G. Wodehouse

My image of heaven is a place where there is an infinite number of P.G. Wodehouse books to read.

March 4, 2008

A Dance to the Music of Time

The cool detachment of Anthony Powell's Nick Jenkins, the Narrator.

August 1, 2006

Ragan Fox

Openly queer spoken word poet.

September 26, 2005

Fellatio is promoted to a minor art, like wine tasting

Edmund White's My Lives : An Autobiography reviewed.

September 18, 2005

Porn or erotica?

Jack Fritscher explains the distinction.

September 14, 2005

Alan Hollinghurst interviewed

Booker prize winning literary gay novelist gives interview.

May 7, 2005

Bad Boys in the Band

Adult gay romance based on Boys in the Bad

September 13, 2004

That Man From C.A.M.P. reviewed

The hero of these remarkable books is the blonde effete Jackie Holmes.

July 29, 2004

Victor Banis 2004

List of Victor Banis books that are being reissued or forthcoming.

July 18, 2004

Forgotten gay writers, musicians, artists?

Rediscovering, recovering gay novelists, poets, musicians, artists, painters, photographers who've been forgotten by later generationf of queer men.

July 14, 2004

Trust Fund Boys

Robert Byrne's new gay comic novel Trust Fund Boys, have you bought it yet?

May 21, 2004

Free gay short fiction

Gay short fiction by gay men and women, tranvesvestites and bisexuals

April 26, 2004

The kindness of gay strangers

Guy made a few suggestions of gay authors that I might enjoy

January 12, 2004

Heinlein vs. Taken

Nowadays science fiction appeals to the gullible, the stupid, the morons.

November 10, 2003

Depressing gay fiction

Queer novels featuring closet cases, Boys in the Band,The City and the Pillar

October 27, 2003

Witty, literate gay novelists?

Funny gay writers like Alan Hollinghurst and Joe Keenan or maybe even Robert Rob Rodi.

September 17, 2003

A couple of books on the English Reformation

G. R. Elton: Reform & Reformation: England, 1509-1558 and A.G. Dickens: The English Reformation

August 16, 2003

Mediocre book on Elizabeth I

Pedestrian history of the reign of Elizabeth I.

The Invention of Ancient Israel

The Invention of Ancient Israel: the Silencing of Palestinian History by Keith D. Whitelam

Shakespeare: scholars & crackpots

Shakespeare's Lives by Schoenbaum, a look at honest if misguided scholarship, foolish Baconians and Oxfordians, and forgers.

Pomo-babble

The horror of academic jargon.

July 17, 2003

Green carnation a secret queer symbol?

The 10 most popular misconceptions about Oscar Wilde

May 28, 2003

Pictures from an Institution

Randall Jarrell's campus comedy Pictures from an Institution.

May 11, 2003

Michael Frayn is incentive?

Michael Frayn, called cognitive and incentive on Amazon.

May 3, 2003

Christopher Hitchens on Evelyn Waugh

Christopher Hitchens on Evelyn Waugh's comedy and tragedy.

April 19, 2003

Nietzsche: from Nazi to postmodern hero

Nietzsche, Nietzschean will to power, superman, ubermensche, joy, generosity.

April 14, 2003

Kingsley Amis: The King's English

Kingsley Amis book The King's English prescriptive wit.

April 11, 2003

God's Funeral

A.N. Wilson's God's Funeral and 19th Century Victorian atheism.

April 6, 2003

The Temple of the Mind

The Temple of the Mind: Education and Literary Taste in Seventeenth-Century England by John R. Mulder.

January 21, 2003

How to buy used books online

January 1, 2003

Rereading Evelyn Waugh

August 29, 2002

Ada Leverson, Malcolm Bradbury, Tom Sharpe

August 1, 2002

Was about Robert Heinlein but somehow wound up with anti-Semitism

July 21, 2002