Category Archives: WWII

What Are You Reading?

This week I am deep into the biography of John Horne Burns, the gay writer most known for his post-WWII novel The Gallery. The biography Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick paints a picture of a talented gay writer who finds himself unable to his own hardships and disappointments […]

Beauty-Gate, Synchronicity, and History

If you haven’t been following the conversation that’s been happening in the gay male poetry community about beauty, aesthetics, class, race, and privilege you can catch up with most of it HERE. C. Dale Young has done a great job of collecting the multiplicity of voices and views on his blog. (Thanks C. Dale!) In […]