Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists

Writer Richard Canning presents the results of his detailed interviews with 12 gay novelists. The interviews focus on the writers' ideas rather than their personal lives, and Canning's style of interviewing lends a collaborative, improvisational feeling to the discussions. Writers include James Purdy, Edmund White, Armistead Maupin, Felice Picano, Ethan Mordden, Alan Hollinghurst, and Patrick Gale. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)