100 best gay novels2/6/2024 ![]() Contemporary gay fiction is a place where one can arrive and leave satisfied and by satisfied, I mean, with sufficient cause to be annoyed online and in their little Google docs across media. Gay men are writing this tiresome genre of Oedipal essay in which they decry the status of contemporary gay writing as being too serious or not serious enough, too sad or too happy, too focused on trauma or too irreverent, too ironic or too sincere, too much about sex or not enough, not realistic about apps and hook ups or too realistic about apps and hook-ups. It has appeared in places like Granta, Gawker, The Yale Review, Astra. Then my friend told me that the article about the book had presented it as an alternative to contemporary gay literature, and without it being explained, I knew exactly what kind of essay my friend was talking about. I was quite happy that my friend was going to read the book, because I was curious what he would make of it though I sensed that there would be things in it that he liked. It had been one of the few books I was able to finish during that time. ![]() I’d read the book during a strange and difficult span during the pandemic. ![]() I found it funny and smart and enjoyable. He asked me what I thought, and I said that I had liked the book. He had recently picked it up after reading an article, ostensibly a review, of the book. Grow up.Īt dinner recently, a friend asked me about a book I had blurbed.
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