Edmund White

Diaspora will discuss The Beautiful Room Is Empty, by Edmund White. Available in paperback at $14 and Google eBook at $9.99. Please come at least a couple of minutes early (before the store closes at 7 pm), so no one will need to come to the door to let you in. If you are late, though, there’s a doorbell to the left of the front door.

Location: Street: 345 S 12th St City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19107-5907 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Edmund White, novelist, essayist, pioneer in gay fiction writing and chronicler of gay life in the late 20th century will be at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe in downtown Asheville on Monday, May 20th at 7 p.m. Mr. White will read from his work, answer questions from the audience and sign books. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography/Autobiography and numerous other awards, Vladimir Nabokov cited White as his favorite novelist. John Irving writes that he believes “Edmund White is one of the best writers of my generation; he’s certainly the contemporary American writer I reread more than any other, and the one whose next book I look forward to the most”. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet one of America’s most revered authors.

Location: Street: 55 Haywood St City: Asheville, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28801 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join us for a reading group discussion of Jack Holmes and his friend by Edmund White!

Venue: Left Bank Books - Central West End (downstairs)

A beautiful novel about an unconventional relationship, Jack Holmes and his friend by Edmund White charts the friendship of Jack Holmes and Will Wright from their arrival in New York on the eve of the wild 60s, over two decades through the first stirrings of gay liberation and the catastrophe of AIDS.

Location: Street: Left Bank Books - Central West End (downstairs) Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Diaspora will discuss A Boy’s Own Story, by Edmund White. Available in paperback. Please come at least a couple of minutes early (before the store closes at 7 pm), so no one will need to come to the door to let you in. If you are late, though, there’s a doorbell to the left of the front door.

Location: Street: 345 S 12th St City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19107-5907 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Edmund White is the author of Jack Holmes and his friend (Bloomsbury, $26 less 10% in the store). Jack Holmes and Will Wright arrive in New York in the calm before the storm of the 1960s. Coworkers at a cultural journal, they soon become good friends. Jack even introduces Will to the woman he will marry. But their friendship is complicated: Jack is also in love with Will. Troubled by his subversive longings, Jack sees a psychiatrist and dates a few women, while also pursuing short-lived liaisons with other men. But in the two decades of their friendship, from the first stirrings of gay liberation through the catastrophe of AIDS, Jack remains devoted to Will. And as Will embraces his heterosexual sensuality, nearly destroying his marriage, the two men share a newfound libertinism in a city that is itself embracing its freedom. Moving among beautifully delineated characters in a variety of social milieus, Edmund White brings narrative daring and an exquisite sense of life's submerged drama to this masterful exploration of friendship, sexuality, and sensibility during a watershed moment in history. In Sacred Monsters, White collects more than twenty of his most recent writings on artists and authors, including John Cheever, Patti Smith, Henry James, Mary Cassatt, Paul Bowles, Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Vladimir Nabokov, Auguste Rodin, Edith Wharton, Christopher Isherwood, Martin Amis, Allen Ginsberg, Marguerite Duras, John Rechy, Ford Maddox Ford, David Hockney, Reynolds Price, E.M. Forster, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, and Marcel Proust, among others. Mr. White has many volumes of fiction and nonfiction to his credit.

Location: Street: 345 S 12th St City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19107-5907 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jack Holmes & His Friend Edmund White Called a literary lion of the gay world, Edmund White is best known for his autobiographical novels in which unabashed hedonism thrives, including A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty. A chronicler of gay life since the 1970s, White helped define the nascent parameters of gay culture. He is the author of the novel Hotel de Dream, several essays and biographies—including Jean Genet's—and the 1980 travelogue States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, which crystallized the time period just before the AIDS crisis. He is also the co-author of the pioneering 1977 book, The Joy of Gay Sex. Jack Holmes and his friend is the story of a decades-long friendship between two men that charts the sexual revolution from both gay and straight perspectives. Eminent outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America Christopher Bram In the years following World War II, a first wave of gay literary power players—Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and Truman Capote among them—fueled changes that transformed the cultural landscape of the United States. In Eminent outlaws, novelist Christopher Bram chronicles the rise of gay consciousness in American writing and the cross-currents, feuds, and subversive energies that provoked these pioneers. Bram is the author of nine novels, including Gods and Monsters, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave. A Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the 2003 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, Bram has written for a broad range of publications, including Out, Premiere, and Architectural Digest. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)