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Johnny Was
& Other Tall Tales
a short fiction collection by Greg Wharton
with a foreword by M. Christian
cover image and design by Shane Luitjens/Torquere Creative
book design by Greg Wharton/Suspect Thoughts Press
A Featured Alternate Selection
of InsightOut Book Club
gay fiction/erotica
softcover, 5X8
192 pages
$16.95
ISBN-10: 0-9710846-6-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-9710846-6-7
release: September 2003
Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales available in Greek translation
through Colourful Planet Publications
(forthcoming, 2008)
Greg Wharton is the publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press. He is the author of Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales. He is also the editor of numerous anthologies including the Lambda Literary Award-winning I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage (co-edited with Ian Philips). Wharton was included in Out magazine's "Out 100" top success stories for 2004. He lives in San Francisco with his brilliant and sexy husband Ian, a cat named Chloe, and a lot of books.
visit the Greg Wharton webpage
Contents
Foreword: Word Envy by M. Christian
Author Preface: AKA Foreplay
Swept Away
Blood Oranges and Cotton Candy
HUSBAND, SIRE, IT
Riding with Walter
Camping
Butterflies and Myths
Blue
That Grin
GOD
Love
Finger
Walking Olive
His Baby
Cock Sucking in America
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Johnny Was
Cropped
Frisco
Dinner with Jesus
Spit
Coach
Lola
Coyotes
Gravity
read his story "Gravity" at Velvet Mafia
"Hopeless romantics and hardened perverts, beware. Greg Wharton's spare but lyrical accounts of love gone—where else but wrong?—will wring your heart dry. His characters yearn and fuck and fuck up among the ruins that Eros has made of Everyman's suburbs, schools, parks, highways, and motels. Reading these stories, you may forget what the difference is between laughter and tears; arousal and regret."
—Patrick Califia
more reviews available here
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Copies of Suspect Thought Press titles for review,
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should be directed to Greg Wharton via email.
Publisher: Greg Wharton
Editor-in-Chief: Ian Philips
Art Director: Shane Luitjens/Torquere Creative
Rights and Permissions Inquiries: Greg Wharton
Suspect Thoughts Press
2215-R Market Street, #544
San Francisco, CA 94114-1612
415-713-7159
Submission Guidelines available here.
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