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Michael Lowenthal
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Charity Girl
(2007)
Charity Girl examines a dark period in our
history, when fear and patriotic fervor led to devastating consequences.
During World War I, the U.S. government waged a moral and medical
campaign, incarcerating and quarantining 15,000 young women who were found
to have venereal disease.
Frieda Mintz is a Jewish seventeen-year-old bundle wrapper
at Jordan Marsh in Boston; she's struck out on her own in the wake of her
mother's determination to marry her off to a wealthy man twice her age.
Then, she spends one impulsive night with "a mensch, a U.S. Army private,
ready to brave the trenches Over There." Unfortunately, Felix Morse leaves
Frieda not just with vivid memories but with an unspeakable disease. Soon
after, she is tracked down and sent to a makeshift detention center, where
she suffers invasive physical exams, the discipline of an overbearing
matron, and a painful erosion of self-worth. She's buoyed, though, by the
strong women around her—her fellow patients and a sympathetic social
worker—who, in depending on one another, seek to forge a new independence
In smart, unusually determined Frieda Mintz, Michael
Lowenthal has deftly created a most winning heroine through which to tell
this troubling tale. Charity Girl lays bare an ugly part of our past, when
the government exercised a questionable level of authority at the expense
of some of its most vulnerable citizens; it also casts long shadows,
exploring timely questions of desire, identity, and the balance between
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Avoidance: A Novel
(2002) -- Finalist Lambda Literary Award for Male Fiction
Jeremy struggles to write his dissertation on the Amish and
the laws of expulsion. How does someone, excluded entirely from the only
community they have ever known, live the rest of their life? After
extensive interviews with Beulah—a young woman banished—Jeremy is no
closer to understanding her choice than he is to his own peculiar exile.
Camp Ironwood, set in the Vermont woods, is more than a summer distraction
for restless adolescent boys—it is a place to belong. And not unlike the
Amish community, it is a place where the whole is greater than the sum of
its parts. For Jeremy, first as a camper and later as the co-director, the
usual camp activities become their own kind of ritual that binds the
community. But when he is blindsided by the seductive charm of Max, a
fourteen-year-old boy from Manhattan, all arms and legs and attitude,
Jeremy must confront his desires, and worse yet, uncover the dark secrets
of his beloved Camp Ironwood.
In this powerful and daring novel, Lowenthal elegantly draws unexpected
parallels between the Amish and Camp Ironwood. By doing so, he ingeniously
explores an age-old dilemma: individual desires versus the good of a
community.
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The Same Embrace
(1998)
This moving and contemporary portrait of two
brothers' estrangement and journey to reconciliation addresses the larger
themes of family and sexual identity. It is the story of second-generation
American Jews, identical twin brothers Jacob and Jonathan, who have chosen
radically different lives. Jacob is a gay activist in Boston, while
Jonathan lives the strict life of an Orthodox student at a Yeshiva in
Jerusalem. Weaving together themes of sibling rivalry, assimilation, the
Holocaust, and AIDS, The Same Embrace is a stunning debut novel
that depicts a quintessentially American search for belonging.
Between Men, Richard Canning, ed. (2007)
Best New American Voices 2005
Edited by the same team responsible for 2003's
popular Tin House fiction anthology Bestial Noise, this selection of
dazzling nonfiction encapsulates everything readers love about Tin House:
the magazine's lively intelligence, wide-ranging curiosity, and sense of
fun. Here is the best of the first twenty issues, including Jeffrey Eugenides on living above a Nazi bunker in Berlin, Jo Ann Beard on the
life and death of one of Jack Kevorkian's last patients, Russell Banks on
adapting novels to the screen, and Czeslaw Milosz on fellow poet Joseph
Brodsky. Celebrating both Tin House's themed issues (Sex, Hollywood,
Music, Lies) and the magazine's various regular departments-Readable
Feasts, Pilgrimages, Lost and Found books-Cooking and Stealing gathers
remarkable essays on diverse subjects from some of today's most compelling
writers, confirming why the Village Voice has declared: "Tin House may
very well represent the future of literary magazines."
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Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader
(2003)
In just four short years Tin House has established itself as the
most eclectic, exciting, and popular literary magazine in America
today-writings from its pages have already been honored in Best
American Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, Prize
Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Bestial Noise is the first collection of Tin House fiction,
showcasing today's masters of the short form-David Foster Wallace, Amy
Hempel, Mary Gaitskill, Ron Carlson, Jim Shepard, Helen Schulman, Jonathan
Lethem, and Lydia Davis, along with Tin House discoveries David
Schickler, Nancy Reisman, and Julie Benesh. These extraordinary, vital
stories are a primer for the current state of cutting-edge fiction and
confirm why the Village Voice declared that ' Tin House may very
well represent the future of literary magazines.'
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Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge
(2003), Paul Zakrzewski, ed.
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True Stories: Guides for Writing from Your Life
(2000), Rebecca Rule and Susan Wheeler, eds.
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Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex
Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Erotic Memoirs
(1999),
Melvin Bukiet, ed.
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Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Erotic Memoirs (1999),
Michael Lowenthal,
ed.
From the Flesh and the Word series comes a new, provocative
celebration of obsession in all its forms. Some of the best gay writers at
work today write tell-all memoirs of being seduced by the luscious, often
dangerous, game of obsession. An uncensored colleciton, Obsessed is
made up entirely of secret fantasies, elusive loves, and titillating,
taboo encounters.
Scott Heim reminisces about a high school crush in "I Am Going to Eat
You," and Brian Bouldrey guiltily
reports being drawn to his lover's ex in "Ex Marks the Spot."
Stephen Greco visits a kinky grooming
parlor in "Field of Vision," while "In This Corner" finds
Charles Flowers stripping down to
his trunks with his boxing instructor. Established writers share this
collection with new talents, exploring gay men's most private and honest
erotic experiences.
*Many contributors--including
Andrew
Holleran and Allan Gurganus --
have a loyal following and will draw new readers to the anthology.
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Queer 13 (1998), Clifford
Chase, ed.
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Best American Gay Fiction 1996
(1996),
Brian Bouldrey, ed.
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The Badboy Erotic Library II
(1996)
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The Best of the Badboys
(1996)
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Flesh and the Word 3
(1995) with John Preston
An anthology of gay erotic writing
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Friends and Lovers
(1995)
with John Preston
Gay men write about the families they create
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Wrestling with the Angel
(1995), Brian Bouldrey, ed.
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Men on Men 5: Best New Gay Fiction
(1994), David Bergman, ed.
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Sister and Brother
(1994), Joan Nestle and
John Preston, eds.
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The Badboy Erotic Library (1994)
(1997) -- Finalist Lambda Literary Award
Winter's Light: Reflections of a Yankee Queer
(1995) with John Preston
(1983,
2005) by John Preston
Revised edition, 2005, includes an introduction by Michael Lowenthal.
Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing
(2004)
Living up to its title, Wonderlands comes fueled by
wanderlust and features every kind of wonderland. In fact, the
collection's contributors--a mix of established gay writers and the
best of the new generation--don't settle for the obvious. Focusing
on the sheer visceral thrill of travel, the adventure of it, they
set out all over the world and always find something unexpected:
love, passion, history, themselves.
The result is an
anthology of dynamic writing that will motivate readers to book their
next flight, or at least get them dreaming of other places. And the
places are legion. Mack Friedman
sets off into the deceptively butch wilds of Alaska.
Robert Tewdwr Moss tracks through
the back roads of Syria and his own version of Arabian Nights.
Colm Tóibín discovers a Spanish Brigadoon and
Edward Field drinks tea
with Paul Bowles. For Wayne Koestenbaum
Vienna is both a city of high low culture, and for
Philip Gambone Asia becomes a place of
second chances. Raphael Kadushin
settles into the ethereal sun of a Dutch spring, Michael Lowenthal remembers a jarring encounter in the
Scottish Highlands, and Tim Miller tallies the 1001 beds he has
slept in all over the world. And
Edmund White, in a classic of
elegiac travel writing, recounts his harrowing drive through the
Sahara with a man he loved.
Contributors:
Alistair McCartney,
Boyer Rickel,
Brian Bouldrey,
Bruce Shenitz,
Colm Tóibín,
David Masello,
Edmund White,
Edward Field,
J.S. Marcus,
Mack Friedman,
Matthew Link, Michael Lowenthal,
Mitch Cullin,
Philip Gambone,
Raphael Kadushin,
Rigoberto Gonzalez,
Robert Tewdwr Moss,
Wayne Koestenbaum, and
Tim Miller.
Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly Vol. 1 No. 1 1999
(1999)
Includes works by David Ebershoff,
David Ivie, Keith Banner, Kelly McQuain,
Michael Lowenthal,
Michael Nava,
Patrick Ryan,
Peter Weltner, and Robert Gluck
Something Inside: Conversations With Gay Fiction Writers
(1980, 1999) by Philip
Gambone, Compiler and
Robert Giard,
Photographer
In the last twenty years, gay
literature has earned a place at the American and British literary tables,
spawning its own constellation of important writers and winning a
dedicated audience. No one though, until Philip Gambone, has attempted to
offer a collective portrait of our most important gay writers. This
collection of interviews attempts just that, and is notable both for the
depth of Gambone's probing conversations and for the sheer range of
important authors included. Virtually every prominent gay author writing
in English today is here, including
Alan Hollinghurst, Allen Barnett,
Andrew Holleran,
Bernard Cooper,
Brad Gooch,
Brian Keith Jackson,
Christopher Bram,
David Leavitt,
David Plante,
Dennis Cooper,
Edmund White,
Gary Glickman,
John Preston,
Joseph Hansen,
Lev Raphael,
Michael Cunningham,
Michael Lowenthal,
Michael Nava, Paul Monette,
Peter Cameron, and
Scott Heim.
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