Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
PHOTO: Erwann (played by Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet ) initiates gay sex with Jewish boy Ismael Benoliel (played by Louis Garrel ) in the French movie musical "Les chansons d'amour" (2007) subtitled in English as "Love Songs," viewed on Logo Channel Nov. 22, 2009, 10-12mid. PT . (Also see IFC Films , Love Songs (film) Wikipedia and Les chansons d'amour (2007) imdb.com ) I flunked...
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
What do Sarah Schulman and Sarah Waters , Frank Bruni , Nick Burd , Mark Doty , Thomas Glave , Andrew Holleran , Moises Kaufman , Tony Kushner , Arthur Laurents , Vestal McIntyre , Felice Picano , Paul Rudnick , and Edmund White alla have in common? They made OUT's 100 list. Learn more here. Thanks, Band of Thebes!
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Popular progressive blogger Pam Spaulding has been named to this year's Out Magazine list of LGBT movers and shakers, the Out 100. Via Pam, here's this year's complete list of honorees with links to their stories in Out . Congratulations, Pam! And I see several JMG regulars on that list, congrats to them as well! (I can't make the below link farm embed very prettily, something that irks me more than...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The OUT 100 is out. Last week I revealed that my visit to a secret location a while back was for the 2009 OUT 100 photo shoot. There's no ranking other than the really famous folks always land on the cover. This year's cover babes are Dan Choi, Cyndi Lauper, Adam Lambert, Rob Marshall and Wanda Sykes. You can see the original photo of me and music blogger Arjan Timmermans by Jason Bell here . The...
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
GANYMEDE POETS, ONE First annual anthology of all 38 poets published in the first six issues of the gay men¹s quarterly GANYMEDE 172 pages, 6x9² perfect-bound paperback book, illustrated throughout with thematic photos Purchase link, details, sample pages: http://ganymedepoets.blogspot. com/ "...an innovative, nearly overwhelming new player among poetry anthologies."-- AssociatedContent.com...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Catherine Millet fails to see the funny side when she finds that two can play at infidelity, discovers Viv Groskop I have never felt quite so Anglo-Saxon as when reading Catherine Millet . Her new book is an honest, brutal piece of confession and self-analysis that's also more than a little racy in parts. There can't be many books in which the word "onanism" is repeated so often –...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
PAINES Plough, the award-winning, internationally renowned, touring theatre company, has announced that George Perrin and James Grieve will succeed Roxana Silbert as joint Artistic Directors of the company. They will take up the post in February 2010 when they will join Executive Producer Anneliese Davidsen. Perrin and Grieve are currently Artistic Directors of nabokov, a new writing company they formed...
J's Theater (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
October is almost over, and it feels like it has raced by. It's been wonderful and at times disorienting to be back east for the entire month; usually I'm well immersed into the dizzying hive of the fall quarter, but so far I've had a chance to think and read and write (and yes, write letters of recommendation!) and go to conferences, with breathers in between every activity, and it feels almost unreal....
MITPressLog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Best-known as "the only openly gay man in Morocco", the Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa kicks off his first US tour today, in support of his autobiographical novel Salvation Army. Hailed by Edmund White as a "brilliant young writer", Taïa's novel...
CHROMA (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
New York City Boy : A Conversation with Edmund White, on the US publication of City Boy, 9th October 2009 By Richard Canning Photo of Edmund White in Venice in 1974, with Alfred Corn (left) and David Kalstone (right) RC: You open with a description of 70s New York: 'grungy, dangerous, bankrupt' but artistically in its zenith. That's pretty evidently meant to contrast with present-day Manhattan. Are...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Edmund White The novelist and filmmaker Vicente Molina Foix (center) with the stars of his...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Here’s something new: Halloween book burning at Baptist church includes Bibles… Penguin Canada’s David Davidar becomes CEO of “Penguin International” Bantam signs Dean Koontz to officially fuck up Frankenstein… No really! Salon interviews Edmund White Enid Blyton’s ghost talks with kids The book industry needs to have contingency plans for postal strikes...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
"I believe in promiscuity. But you know people are a lot more complicated than they appear to be. I mean, right now I'm in a relationship where I am faithful because my partner wants me to be, and I respect him enough -- and it lowers the level of anxiety in our relationship. He's also extraordinarily hot. "In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
"I think Gore is a complete lunatic, and it doesn't bother me what he says about me. He's an awful, nasty man. Now he can't write. He's wheelchair-bound, and he's in pain. He lost his lover of many years. … You know, he's just an old grouch."...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
“..The gay literary lion talks about his juicy memoir, same-sex marriage — and his beef with Gore Vidal Edmund White is one of the few literary giants of the gay world. He is best known for his tetralogy of autobiographical novels — including “A Boy’s Own Story,” “The Beautiful Room Is Empty” and “The Farewell Symphony” [...]
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