Jameson Currier

Still Dancing (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Still Dancing author Jameson Currier brings together twenty short stories spanning three decades of the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the gay community. Along with stories from Currier's debut collection, Dancing on the Moon, praised by The Village Voice as "defiant and elegiac," are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form.

"The breadth of Currier's personal experience is evident in his writing, which is moving without resorting to melodrama, familiar without feeling clichéd. In the new book's title story, for instance, he describes a man who has lost many friends to AIDS as feeling 'like a boy lost at an amusement park who can't find his family and doesn't understand why they are not where they should be.' It's a characteristically vivid yet unsentimental description of what it's like to wake up and find that your entire chosen family, your whole support system, is suddenly goneand many people who survived the worst years of the epidemic will likely find that Currier has, once again, put into words the things that they've felt for years."
Wayne Hoffman, Windy City Times

"In these stories, Currier fictionalizes queer life and times from three decades of the AIDS era, capturing the years in his prose. It has the literary heft of Camus and the quiet urbanity of Cheever... Currier chronicles not only a defining era in gay America, but the private lives of the people who triumphed through what looked like defeat. These lives are often so finely drawn, Currier never has to resort to cliché... Gritty, esoteric, funny and passionate, Currier's courageous prose reminds us that we must never forget."
Lewis Whittington, Edge

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chelsea Station Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781452466293
• Artikelnr.: 45448854

Autorenporträt

Jameson Currier is the author of seven novels: Where the Rainbow Ends; The Wolf at the Door; The Third Buddha; What Comes Around; The Forever Marathon, A Gathering Storm, and Based on a True Story; five collections of short fiction: Dancing on the Moon; Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex; Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories; The Haunted Heart and Other Tales; and Why Didn't Someone Warn You About Prince Charming?; and a memoir: Until My Heart Stops. His short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines and websites, including Velvet Mafia, Confrontation, Christopher Street, Genre, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, and the anthologies Men on Men 5, Best American Gay Fiction 3, Certain Voices, Boyfriends from Hell, Men Seeking Men, Best Gay Romance, Best Gay Stories, Wilde Stories, Unspeakable Horror, Art from Art, and Making Literature Matter. His AIDS-themed short stories have also been translated into French by Anne-Laure Hubert and published as Les Fantômes, and he is the author of the documentary film, Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness. His reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay culture have been published in many national and local publications, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Lambda Book Report, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Washington Blade, Bay Area Reporter, Frontiers, The New York Native, The New York Blade, Out, and Body Positive. In 2010 he founded Chelsea Station Editions, an independent press devoted to gay literature, and the following year launched the literary magazine Chelsea Station, which has published the works of more than two hundred writers. The press also serves as the home for Mr. Currier's own writings which now span a career of more than four decades. Books published by the press have been honored by the Lambda Literary Foundation, the American Library Association GLBTRT Roundtable, the Publishing Triangle, the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Foundation, and the Rainbow Book Awards. A self-taught artist, illustrator, and graphic designer, his design work is often tagged as "Peachboy." Mr. Currier has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, a recipient of a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a judge for many literary competitions. He currently divides his time between a studio apartment in New York City and a farmless farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.