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On Homosexualities

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|Date: August 13, 2019
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On Homosexualities

Controversial and proudly free of political correctness, his sharp comments are often feared by authors o ...

Controversial and proudly free of political correctness, his sharp comments are often feared by authors of new publications. Yet for people who know him closely, Steve Murray is the most supportive an ...

August 13, 2019
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Samuel Steward’s Stein-Toklas mysteries

Posted by Stephen O. Murray
|Date: July 14, 2019
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Samuel Steward’s Stein-Toklas mysteries

Besides publishing his letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (Dear Sammy, 1977), their protégé, ...

Besides publishing his letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (Dear Sammy, 1977), their protégé, Samuel M. Steward (1909-93) also portrayed their relationship somewhat peripherally in Parisia ...

July 14, 2019
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The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

Posted by Stephen O. Murray
|Date: June 14, 2019
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The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

The title of Paul Russell’s novel The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov is a slight twist on the more famous ...

The title of Paul Russell’s novel The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov is a slight twist on the more famous Nabokov’s (older brother Vladimir Vladimirovich) first novel written in English, The Real Life ...

June 14, 2019
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Edmund White, Reader

Posted by Stephen O. Murray
|Date: June 14, 2019
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Edmund White, Reader

Approximately midway through his charming, aphoristic, and erudite The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading ...

Approximately midway through his charming, aphoristic, and erudite The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading (2018), Edmund White writes: “I may never be so well-known as John Updike, but to my few reade ...

June 14, 2019
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Aaron Hamburger with Nirvana Is Here in San Francisco, 2019

Posted by Stephen O. Murray
|Date: June 07, 2019
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Aaron Hamburger with Nirvana Is Here in San Francisco, 2019

The book (expanded from my Amazon Vine review) For admirers, such as me, of the first two books by Aaron ...

The book (expanded from my Amazon Vine review) For admirers, such as me, of the first two books by Aaron Hamburger (born in 1973), the 2004 collection of stories mostly set in postcommunist Prague, an ...

June 07, 2019
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Aaron Hamburger’s first novel, Faith for Beginners

Posted by Stephen O. Murray
|Date: June 06, 2019
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Aaron Hamburger’s first novel, Faith for Beginners

I was not the only person to be impressed by Aaron Hamburger's debut collection of stories, The View from ...

I was not the only person to be impressed by Aaron Hamburger's debut collection of stories, The View from Stalin's Head, in that it won him the Rome Prize and a year's residence at the American Academ ...

June 06, 2019
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Sidney Lumet’s (1975) “Dog Day Afternoon”

Posted by Stephen O. Murray
|Date: June 04, 2019
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Sidney Lumet’s (1975) “Dog Day Afternoon”

“Dog Day Afternoon” (1975) is, at least for me, the most memorable NYC dramas directed by Sidney Lumet. S ...

“Dog Day Afternoon” (1975) is, at least for me, the most memorable NYC dramas directed by Sidney Lumet. Seeing it again for the first time since its initial theatrical release, I remembered a lot of w ...

June 04, 2019
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The perspective of a Moroccan boytoy

Posted by Stephen O. Murray
|Date: June 01, 2019
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The perspective of a Moroccan boytoy

Tahar ben-Jelloun was born in Fez in 1944, emigrated to France in 1962. He is the author of twenty-come b ...

Tahar ben-Jelloun was born in Fez in 1944, emigrated to France in 1962. He is the author of twenty-come books, including The Blinding Absence of Light about desert concentration camps for dissidents a ...

June 01, 2019
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Expats on the Tunisian coast

Posted by Stephen O. Murray
|Date: May 29, 2019
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Expats on the Tunisian coast

Like Mary Renault, and Marguerite Yourcenar, Patricia Highsmith, who was born in Fort Worth in 1921 and d ...

Like Mary Renault, and Marguerite Yourcenar, Patricia Highsmith, who was born in Fort Worth in 1921 and died in Switzerland (Locarno) in 1995, is a lesbian writer who created male characters (gay and ...

May 29, 2019
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Esther Newton’s memoir

Posted by Stephen O. Murray
|Date: May 29, 2019
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Esther Newton’s memoir

As co-editor of a history of anthropology series published by the University of Nebraska Press, I read a ...

As co-editor of a history of anthropology series published by the University of Nebraska Press, I read a lot of biographies of anthropologists and some fieldwork memoirs. Recognizing that Esther Newto ...

May 29, 2019
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