Mapping the Territory
Selected Nonfiction
Published on 28. May 2013
258 pages
978-1-4804-2457-9 (ISBN)
Description
The first collection of nonfiction from the author Tony Kushner calls "one of the best novelists writing in the world today"
Over a thirty-year period, novelist Christopher Bram witnessed, and lived through, the powerful experiences of coming out, the AIDS epidemic, gay marriage, and the social changes that have occurred in lower Manhattan. From the title piece, which maps the state of gay fiction, to "A Body in Books," about the gay books that changed the author's life, the essays in Mapping the Territory form a coherent autobiographical account of Bram's life. This work wouldn't be complete without "Homage to Mr. Jimmy," his account of how his novel Father of Frankenstein grew from his imagination and writing into the Oscar-winning movie Gods and Monsters. Mapping the Territory is a thoroughly engaging and compelling look into a great American writer.
Over a thirty-year period, novelist Christopher Bram witnessed, and lived through, the powerful experiences of coming out, the AIDS epidemic, gay marriage, and the social changes that have occurred in lower Manhattan. From the title piece, which maps the state of gay fiction, to "A Body in Books," about the gay books that changed the author's life, the essays in Mapping the Territory form a coherent autobiographical account of Bram's life. This work wouldn't be complete without "Homage to Mr. Jimmy," his account of how his novel Father of Frankenstein grew from his imagination and writing into the Oscar-winning movie Gods and Monsters. Mapping the Territory is a thoroughly engaging and compelling look into a great American writer.
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Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including
Father of Frankenstein, which was made into the Academy Award-winning movie
Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellen. Bram grew up outside of Norfolk,Virginia, where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 and moved to New York City in 1978. In addition to
Father of Frankenstein, he has written numerous articles and essays. His most recent book,
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, is a literary history.Bram was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, and in 2003, he received Publishing Triangle's Bill WhiteheadAward for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at New York University.
Content
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Perry Street, Greenwich Village
- A Body in Books
- Slow Learners
- Little Green Buddies
- Hearts of Stone
- Faggots Revisited
- Mapping the Territory
- George and Al
- Homage to Mr. Jimmy
- Glass Closet
- Can Straight Men Still Write?
- A Queer Monster
- Tattle Tale
- A Sort of Friendship
- An Embarrassment of Books
- In Memory of Oscar Wilde (Bookstore)
- Perry Street Redux
- Acknowledgments
- A Biography of Christopher Bram
