Works by
Raphael Kadushin
(Editor, Writer)

Anthologies

• Best Food Writing 2008 (2008), Holly Hughes, ed.
  Best Food Writing 2008 once more authoritatively and appealingly assembles the finest culinary prose from the past year’s books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. This anthology features both established food writers and rising stars addressing everything from celebrated chefs to the travails of the home cook, and from erudite culinary history to food-inspired memoirs. By turns opinionated, evocative, nostalgic, sensuous, and just plain funny, it’s a tasty sampler to dip into time and again, whether you’re in the mood for foie gras or fruitcake.
  
  Like previous collections, Best Food Writing 2008 will include writers such as Anthony Bourdain, Barbara Kingsolver, Bill Buford, Colman Andrews, Frank Bruni, Jeffrey Steingarten, Madhur Jaffrey, Raphael Kadushin, Raymond Sokolov, Ruth Reichl, and many others.

• Best Food Writing 2009 (2009), Holly Hughes, ed.
  Best Food Writing 2009 authoritatively and appealingly assembles the finest culinary prose from the past year’s books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. This anthology features both established food writers and rising stars cooking up everything from erudite culinary history to food-inspired memoirs. By turns opinionated, evocative, sensuous, and just plain funny, it’s a tasty sampler to dip into time and again.
  
  As in previous editions, Best Food Writing 2009 will include top-notch writers like Alice Waters, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Calvin Trillin, Frank Bruni, Colman Andrews, Madhur Jaffrey, Raphael Kadushin, Raymond Sokolov, Ruth Reichl, and many others.

• Best Gay Stories 2009 (2009), Steve Berman, ed.
  Best Gay Stories 2009 offers eighteen tales showing the handsome face of gay writing. Noted editor Steve Berman, a finalist for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award and Lambda Literary Award, has spent the past year reading page after page to bring booklovers a collection of the finest stories featuring the pain of first loves and the comfort of old lovers, wistful essays and poignant confessions. These stories, by award-winning authors as well as fresh voices in the field, encompass the range of emotions every gay man feels in his lifetime.

• Big Trips; More Good Gay Travel Writing (2008)
  Experiencing the world—from California to Corfu, Paris to Provincetown
  
  There are weekend vacations, quick getaways, and overnight jaunts. But in this border-hopping anthology of travel memoir and fiction, every trip is a big one, as an advance guard of adventurous writers—both seasoned names and fresh voices—scatter across the globe, face the pure euphoria and sheer anxiety of travel, and survive a lot of very fast living.
  
  Reviving a time before the travel narrative devolved into puny 10-best lists, these intrepid writers don’t get sidetracked by shopping sprees, restaurant tips, or thread-counts. Told with verve, their odysseys remind us, instead, of the larger lures—the need for love, for adventure, for a new sense of place—that tempt us to leave home in the first place.
  
  Wanderlust here comes in every shape and crosses every boundary, from Cairo to Florida, from Corfu and Rome to Vienna, Taormina, the Dordogne, and San Francisco. For Aaron Hamburger the big trip is a brave flirtation with a teenager in Prague. For Dale Peck it’s an oddly romantic whirl through the clubs of London, and for Michael Klein it is the golden light of Provincetown, where everything seems possible. Duncan Fallowell sees classic sensuality in a Sicilian waiter, and Trebor Healey tries to find some sense of home along purely American backroads. Mack Friedman wanders through Mexico, Andrew Holleran confronts the wasteland of northern Florida, Bruce Benderson returns to a transformed San Francisco, Raphael Kadushin drives through a furry Yorkshire, and Ty Geltmaker remembers Rome when it really did approximate la dolce vita. Edmund White takes a double trip, through Paris and Morocco, and Martin Sherman visits a Greek island, where the intrepid traveler, just starting out, confronts his own loneliness.
  
  A must for anyone who loves to travel, and also anyone who prefers to stay safe at home, Big Trips is an unforgettable voyage out.
  
  Locations and contributors include:

  • Brooklyn, NY (Clifford Chase)

  • Boston, MA (Philip Gambone)

  • Chicago, IL (Brian Bouldrey)

  • Glendora , CA (Trebor Healey)

  • Los Angeles, CA (Ty Geltmaker)

  • London, England (Duncan Fallowell and Martin Sherman)

  • Madison , WI (Raphael Kadushin)

  • New York, NY (Aaron Hamburger, Bruce Benderson, Dale Peck, Douglas A. Martin, Edmund White, and Michael Klein

  • Pittsburgh, PA (Mack Friedman)

  • Washington , D.C. (Andrew Holleran)

• Barnstorm: Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction (2005)
  Though the best American writers live everywhere now, a popular fiction persists: our strongest literary voices are strictly bi-coastal ones.
  
  Barnstorm sets out to disprove that cliché and to undermine another one as well: the sense of regional fiction as something quaint, slightly regressive, and full of local color. The stories in this collection capture our global reality with a ruthless, unaffected voice.
  
  Lorrie Moore’s "The Jewish Hunter" is a dark romance that’s by turns cynical and guileless. Mack Friedman catches the smoking feel of first love in his "Setting the Lawn on Fire," and Jesse Lee Kercheval’s "Brazil" is a raucous, ultimately mournful road trip. For Jane Hamilton, Wisconsin is a gorgeous but bittersweet homecoming, and for Kelly Cherry, in her achingly elegiac "As It Is in Heaven," it’s the hopeful new world, juxtaposed with a bleak, tweedy England. Dwight Allen’s "The Green Suit" evokes the young man edging toward adulthood, in a New York that’s as flamboyant as an opera, and Tenaya Darlington, in her "A Patch of Skin," constructs a pure horror story, because the horror of loneliness is something we all know. Together Barnstorm’s eclectic voices suggest that every coast now, even the Great Lakes’ shores, are at the very center of our best, and truest, national literature.
  
  Contributors: Dwight Allen, Dean Bakopoulos, Margaret Benbow, Anthony Bukoski, Kelly Cherry, Tenaya Darlington, Mack Friedman, Jane Hamilton, John Hildebrand, Jesse Lee Kercheval, J. S. Marcus, Judith Claire Mitchell, Lorrie Moore, Ann Shaffer, Ron Wallace

• 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.

Other

• Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About the Men We Used to Love (2007), Harriet Brown, ed.
  See "Setting My Hair on Fire"

• Best Food Writing 2001 (2001), Holly Hughes, ed.

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

• Through the Lens: National Geographic Best Photographs (2003), Leah Bendavid Val, ed.

See also:

• Living Out Series
  Raphael Kadushi oversees this series — the only series in the country devoted exclusively to gay and lesbian autobiography.