JOSEPH PINTAURO is the author of two novels, Cold Hands and State of Grace, several volumes of poetry, and a collection of plays, The Short Plays of Joe Pintauro. His other plays include, “Snow Orchid,” “Cacciatori,” and “Wild Blue,” and he is company playwright with the Circle Repertory Theater in New York. His fiction and essays have appeared in Christopher Street and Chicago Magazine. He lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, where he is working on a nonfiction novel, Aquamarine, and completing another novel that will develop the characters in “Jungle Dove.”
JAMES PURDY’s many novels include Don’t Call Me by My Right Name, Dream Palace, Color of Darkness, Malcolm, The Nephew, Eustace Chisholm and the Works, In a Shallow Grave, Narrow Rooms, On Glory’s Course, and In the Hollow of His Hand. He is also the author of volumes of poetry, The Running Sun and Will Arrest the Bird that has No Light, collections of plays, Children is All, Proud Flesh, The Berry-Picker and Scrap of Paper, and a collection of stories, The Candles of Your Eyes. His work has appeared in Esquire, The New York Review, Mademoiselle, and Harper’s. A fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, he lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is completing a novel, Garments the Living Wear.
LEV RAPHAEL is Assistant Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University and the co-author of a work on psychology, The Dynamics of Power. His fiction and essays have appeared in such periodicals as The James White Review, Mirage, The Evergreen Chronicles, Redbook, Commentary, Shmate, and Reform Judaism. He is the recipient of a Harvey Swados Fiction Prize and Amelia Magazine’s Reed Smith Award, and is at work on a novel, Where Is That Country, which will expand his story in this collection. He lives in Okemos, Michigan.
AUTHOR UPDATE
April 29, 2019
In preparing this volume as an e-book, the current status of the Authors was investigated. Many of the writers lived in New York or San Francisco upon original publication in the fall of 1988. As a practical matter, all submissions would have been completed and approved by late 1987 — at a time when AIDS taking a devastating toll on the gay community and its artists. Four of the authors, plus series editor George Stambolian, died of AIDS complications in those desperate years before drug break-throughs gained traction in 1994. Three others have passed on: among them James Purdy at 94 in 2009. Most of the surviving authors have continued to lead robust careers, most in the field of writing.
Here is the full roll call of those lost and—happily—the survivors, too.
ALLEN BARNETT (May 23, 1955 – August 14, 1991) ; died of AIDS at age 36.
GEORGE STAMBOLIAN (born April 10, 1938 – December 22, 1991, New York City) ; died of AIDS at age 53.
MELVIN DIXON (May 29, 1950 – October 26, 1992) ; died of AIDS at age 42.
CHRISTOPHER COE (1953 – September 6, 1994) ; died of AIDS at age 41.
DAVID B. FEINBERG (November 25, 1956 – November 2, 1994) ; died of AIDS at age 37.
JAMES PURDY (July 17, 1914 – March 13, 2009) ; died at age 94
ALBERT INNAURATO (June 2, 1947 – September 24, 2017) ; died at age 70
JOSEPH PINTAURO (November 22, 1930 — May 29, 2018) ; died at age 87
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JAMES McCOURT (July 4, 1941 — ) ; still active at age 78
ALLAN GURGANUS (June 11, 1947 — ) ; still active at age 72
RICHARD MCCANN (1949 — ) ; still active at age 70
TIM BARRUS (1950 — ) ; still active at age 69
CHRISTOPHER DAVIS (1950 — ) ; still active at age 69
DAVID GROFF (1950 — ) ; still active at age 69
DAVID BRENDAN HOPES (1950 — ) ; still active at age 69
LEV RAPHAEL (May 19, 1954 — ) ; still active at age 65
GARY GLICKMAN (March 20, 1959 — ) ; still active at age 60
ANDERSON FERRELL (1960? — ) ; still active at age 59
DAVID LEAVITT (June 23, 1961 — ) ; still active at age 58
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Fiction on gay subjects has appeared in several mainstream periodicals in recent years. The following is a selective list of journals and magazines that regularly publish gay fiction. Contributors should inform themselves of the editorial policy of each publication before submitting manuscripts.
ADVOCATE MEN. P. O. Box 4371, Los Angeles, CA 90078
AMETHYST: A JOURNAL FOR LESBIANS AND GAY MEN. Southeastern Arts, Media and Education Project, Inc., P.O. Box 54719, Atlanta, GA 30308
BGM (black gay men). The Blacklight Press, P.O. Box 9391, Washington, DC 20005
BLACK/OUT. National Coalition of Black Gays, P.O. Box 2490, Washington, DC 20013
CHRISTOPHER STREET. P.O. Box 1475, Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008
THE EVERGREEN CHRONICLES: A JOURNAL OF GAY AND LESBIAN WRITERS. P.O. Box 6260, Minnehaha Station, Minneapolis, MN 55406
FAG RAG. P.O. Box 331, Kenmore Station, Boston, MA 02215
THE JAMES WHITE REVIEW: A GAY MEN’S LITERARY QUARTERLY. P.O. Box 3356, Traffic Station, Minneapolis, MN 55403
MANDATE. Mavety Media Group, 462 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013
MIRAGE. 1987 California Street #202, San Francisco, CA 94109
OTHER COUNTRIES (black gay men). P.O. Box 21176, Midtown Station, New York, NY 10129
OUT/LOOK: NATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY QUARTERLY. P.O. Box 146430, San Francisco, CA 94114-6430
RFD: A COUNTRY JOURNAL FOR GAY MEN EVERYWHERE. Route 1, Box 127E, Bakersville, NC 28705
TORSO. Mavety Media Group, 462 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013
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