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Everything I Have Is Blue: cover image and design by Shane Luitjens/Torquere Creative gay fiction/queer studies A Main Selection
In this age of Will & Grace and gentrification, the "dream market" and gay investment advisors, you don't hear much about working-class queers. In fact, some would even consider the idea a contradiction in terms. But the contributors to Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men About More-or-Less Gay Life would beg to differ. The first collection of short stories by working-class queer, gay, and bisexual men, Everything I Have Is Blue is a rich and long-overdue contribution both to the burgeoning field of working-class studies and to LGBTIQ fiction.
Contents:
Read Wendell Ricketts' Afterword "Passing Notes in Class."
Also available:
A Blue Study provides a 55-page guide for readers, students, teachers, and book groups to Everything I Have Is Blue, including:
a synopsis of each of the eighteen stories in the collection;
story-specific questions designed to encourage exploration of theme, plot, point of view, and characterization and to deepen and clarify connections to the larger contexts of working-class and LGBTIQ literature;
writing prompts and suggestions for further study and research;
and an annotated, 36-page bibliography of more than 300 titles in English that connects the reader to working-class and LGBTIQ scholarship and literature.
$4.95. Available in .pdf format only.
Wendell Ricketts is a writer, editor, and translator currently living in the ruins of San Francisco. He has worked as a cocktail waiter, a teacher, a house painter, a telephone solicitor, and a Kelly Girl, among many other day jobs. His fiction, poetry, essays, and journalism have appeared in such publications as The Advocate, Out, Spin, James White Review, Salt Hill, Mississippi Review, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, and the anthologies Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, and Silent No More: Voices of Courage in American Schools. He was born on Wake Island, an atoll that is slowly sinking into the Pacific Ocean, and raised in small towns on O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.
Read an interview with Wendell Ricketts
"This book gives us what no contemporary TV program, movie, or magazine has even come close to—the tender, angry, funny emotional innards of the embattled daily life of working-class gay men. These could be the stories of the guys on the corner in my neighborhood—or yours!" Pick it up or order it at your favorite book store!
A high-resolution Everything I Have Is Blue cover is available here. Publisher: Greg Wharton |
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