Men on Men 2: Best New Gay Fiction
6 journalers for this copy...
Picked this up from the Book Thing, Baltimore MD.
I already have a copy of this book on Mountain Range To Be Read so this one is available for BookCossing.
18 stories.
I already have a copy of this book on Mountain Range To Be Read so this one is available for BookCossing.
18 stories.
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
I'm adding this to Scoobs-buddy GLBT July '09 bookbox. I hope whoever ends up with this book enjoys it!
I'm adding this to Scoobs-buddy GLBT July '09 bookbox. I hope whoever ends up with this book enjoys it!
Taking it out of the GLBT bookbox.
Looks like this one made the rounds of the previous bookbox {grin}. I've enjoyed a couple of other "Men on Men" collections, but not this one, so I'm happy to claim this one.
Later: a decent anthology, with a good variety of stories. Richard McCann's entry features a junior-high-school boy and his best friend who are caught dressing up in his mother's clothes, leading to some painful episodes of anti-gay behavior by the main character, who's desperate to distance himself from the humiliation. [I hoped for a "he got better" ending to that one, but while the narrator inserts some "where I am now" bits in the middle of the story it doesn't mitigate the self-loathing very much.]
David B. Feinberg's "The Age of Anxiety" combines humor, neurosis, and fear, as he natters on about problems with his love life and other things (large and small); I'd like to hear him read this one aloud.
James Purdy's "In This Corner" is about a tense encounter that may turn out better than the characters dared hope.
One story that surprised, impressed - and angered - me very much was "Why People Get Cancer" by Anderson Ferrell; it's narrated by a conservative Christian who's busy trying to get a hospitalized cancer patient to ask God's forgiveness for her tolerance of her gay son and his lover. And the last paragraph is the kind of low-key, chilling ending that - well, let's just say that it's hard to get out of one's head.
Another tale with an unexpected turn: David Groff's "Nobody's Child". It has to do with a gay man and his relationship with his family, and with custody concerns about his sister's son - but it takes a more difficult (and possibly more realistic) line.
There are entries by Lev Raphael and David Leavitt as well, authors whose other works I've enjoyed, and several more stories that were good, if not as memorable as those I've mentioned. Good, thought-provoking collection.
Later: a decent anthology, with a good variety of stories. Richard McCann's entry features a junior-high-school boy and his best friend who are caught dressing up in his mother's clothes, leading to some painful episodes of anti-gay behavior by the main character, who's desperate to distance himself from the humiliation. [I hoped for a "he got better" ending to that one, but while the narrator inserts some "where I am now" bits in the middle of the story it doesn't mitigate the self-loathing very much.]
David B. Feinberg's "The Age of Anxiety" combines humor, neurosis, and fear, as he natters on about problems with his love life and other things (large and small); I'd like to hear him read this one aloud.
James Purdy's "In This Corner" is about a tense encounter that may turn out better than the characters dared hope.
One story that surprised, impressed - and angered - me very much was "Why People Get Cancer" by Anderson Ferrell; it's narrated by a conservative Christian who's busy trying to get a hospitalized cancer patient to ask God's forgiveness for her tolerance of her gay son and his lover. And the last paragraph is the kind of low-key, chilling ending that - well, let's just say that it's hard to get out of one's head.
Another tale with an unexpected turn: David Groff's "Nobody's Child". It has to do with a gay man and his relationship with his family, and with custody concerns about his sister's son - but it takes a more difficult (and possibly more realistic) line.
There are entries by Lev Raphael and David Leavitt as well, authors whose other works I've enjoyed, and several more stories that were good, if not as memorable as those I've mentioned. Good, thought-provoking collection.
This book's going into bookstogive's Making New Friends bookbox, which will be on its way to the next stop today. Enjoy!
This book returned in the Traveling and Making Friends Bookbox. This one is not really my cup of tea so it will be available for another reader.
Not My Cup of Tea at all, so am giving to Mom who needs it for a bookbox.
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Journal Entry 9 by 
love2cook
at ABC Bookbox (Already Book Crossed) in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Thursday, March 22, 2012
love2cook at ABC Bookbox (Already Book Crossed) in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Thursday, March 22, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (3/22/2012 UTC) at ABC Bookbox (Already Book Crossed) in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA
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