Works by
Larry Duplechan
(Musician, Writer)

Fiction

• Eight Days a Week: A Novel (1985)
  Interracial gay love comedy that introduces readers to 20-something-year-old Johnnie Ray Rousseau.

• Blackbird (1986)
  Funny, moving, gay coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet; if that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly by his father, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to have sex for the first time. All the while, he's intrigued by Marshall MacNeill, a fellow drama class member who's surely the sexiest man to walk God's green earth-at least according to Johnnie Ray. This novel of adolescent awakening is as fresh and heartfelt as it was when first published.

• Tangled Up in Blue (1989)
  A love story of three people bound together by ties of love, passion, and friendship until a crisis threatens to destroy them all.

• Captain Swing: A Love Story (1993)
  35 years old and recently widowed of his life partner, Johnnie Ray Rousseau travels to rural Louisiana to his father's deathbed, and develops a romantic obsession with a teenage male cousin.

• Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong (1991), John Preston, ed.
  Article about Mar Vista area of Los Angeles, California, where Larry Duplechan resided living at the time of the writing.

• Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992), Clarence Major, ed.
  Includes Duplechan's story, "Zazoo", which concerns the homosexual awakening of a young black boy in rural Louisiana in the 1960s.

• Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families (1992), John Preston, ed.
  Includes Larry Duplechan's story about his mother.

• Go Go Go (2003)
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