Research Catalog

Title

Beneath the skin : the collective essays / John Rechy ; with added commentory by the author.

Author

Rechy, John.

Publication

New York, NY : Carroll & Graf, 2004.

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Details

Description

xiv, 303 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"When John Rechy broke out in 1963 as the bestselling author of City of Night, his novel about the underworld of gay male prostitution, he became a source for provocative commentary on sexually transgressive topics for publications as varied as the New York Times, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and the Advocate. However, Rechy has also distinguished himself as a cultural observer on matters of race, religion, politics, and literature. Beneath the Skin collects more than four decades of his outspoken essays - many never before reprinted and almost none ever appearing previously in book form - along with new additional commentary by the author."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• American prose literature > 20th century
• American prose literature > 21st century
• American essays

Contents

Foreword / Donald Weise -- El Paso del Norte -- The city of lost angels -- "Conduct unbecoming ... " : lieutenant on the peace line -- The army fights an idea -- "All it does is make you hate" -- The sunshine girl's homophobic pitch -- Common bonds and battles -- Masters and Johnson focus on homosexuality -- A case for Cruising -- Hollywood and homosexuality : heterosexual films in drag -- Twenty years of Gore Vidal : a candidate for canonization? -- Burroughs strokes again -- Memory babe -- AIDS : mysteries and hidden dangers -- The dean from Dublin : a truly civilized man -- City of night remembered -- Less than zero -- A high court decision and a sense of betrayal -- Carson McCullers' Reflections in a golden eye -- Muscles and mascara -- Sixty years later a gay classic enters (almost) the mainstream -- The outlaw sensibility -- A tough guy from L.A. -- Letter to Gore Vidal -- Letter to the New York review of books -- Sets and reps -- Sergei Eisenstein : a life in conflict -- Places left unfinished at the time of Creation -- Brother Paul, Sister Jan, Brother Hinn, God, and the folks -- Lay of the land : Christopher Isherwood's Lost years -- Randy Dandy : Liberace, American boy -- Holy drag! -- The horror, the horror : thoughts on the aftermath of September 11 -- Beatin' around the Bush -- Sins of the fathers -- Cruise not gay! : the judge has spoken -- Blonde -- Lawrence brings it all back home -- From Sunset Boulevard to Mulholland Drive -- A star is killed -- A spirit preserved in Amber -- On writing : the terrible three rules -- Our friend the comma -- Fragments from a literary life -- He hugged moms and dads.

ISBN

0786714050 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• ocm57383867
• SCSB-5156996

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries