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[bellejarred]

Hi, I just joined this community for suggestions and reading tips, etc. I'm getting a PhD in Creative Writing and one of my preliminary exams is going to be in Contemporary Queer Fiction. I have compiled a brief, preliminary list, and was wondering if you could give me advice--can you all recommend any titles that are vital and absent from my list

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[cerisaye]

Patricia Nell Warren- Front Runner, Fancy Dancer
John Fox- The Boys On The Rock
William Corlett- Now & Then
Poppy Z Brite- Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, Exquisite Corpse
James Robert Baker- Tim & Pete, Testosterone
Joseph Hansen- Fadeout
Dennis Cooper- Closer, Try, Frisk, Guide, Wrong
Augustin Gomez-Arcos- The Carnivorous Lamb
Keith Hale- Cody

[blake_fraina]

Christopher Rice recently wrote about diversity in queer fiction for the Advocate. Here is a brief excerpt (which includes a list of authors writing in the GLBT genre who are doing very unique, exciting stuff) as well as a link to the Yahoo Community where the article is re-run in its entirety

[eengah]

I don't know if you care about young adult stuff, but if you do, I would add Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden and the short story compilation Am I Blue, edited by Marion Dane Bauer.

[captals_avatar]

I would absolutely recommend Nicola Griffith if you're interested in books where sexualities are secondary to the plot but still rather important.
Ammonite, Slow River, The Blue Place, Stay.

Also anything by Gertrude Stein.

Also, if you can include early 21st century in your studies, then Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai.

[thevioletvixen]

For Michelle Tea, I'd recommend Valencia and Rent Girl. I'd also put in something by Sarah Schulman, perhaps People in Trouble or After Delores, although personally I love Girls, Visions, and Everything. Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City are wonderful view of SF in the '70s and '80s. And I'd include one of Ann Bannon's pulp novels. If you want to talk theater, that's really what I do and I'd have a ton of other recommendations.