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Michael Lowenthal
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2005
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Novels
  • 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 the public good and individual freedom.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Anthologies
  • Between Men, Richard Canning, ed. (2007)

  • Best New American Voices 2005 (2004), Francine Prose, ed.

  • Cooking and Stealing: A Tin House Nonfiction Reader (2004)
    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."

  • 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.'

  • Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge (2003), Paul Zakrzewski, ed.

  • True Stories: Guides for Writing from Your Life (2000), Rebecca Rule and Susan Wheeler, eds.

  • Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Erotic Memoirs (1999), Melvin Bukiet, ed.

  • 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.

  • Queer 13 (1998), Clifford Chase, ed.

  • Best American Gay Fiction 1996 (1996), Brian Bouldrey, ed.

  • The Badboy Erotic Library II (1996)

  • The Best of the Badboys (1996)

  • Flesh and the Word 3 (1995) with John Preston
    An anthology of gay erotic writing

  • Friends and Lovers (1995) with John Preston
    Gay men write about the families they create

  • Wrestling with the Angel (1995), Brian Bouldrey, ed.

  • Men on Men 5: Best New Gay Fiction (1994), David Bergman, ed.

  • Sister and Brother (1994), Joan Nestle and John Preston, eds.

  • The Badboy Erotic Library (1994)

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