Slight, but since gay books is what we do: Huffington Post offers a feature comically called "7 Great Gay Couples in Literature." Sure, yes, of course, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, but who would place Robin Vote and Nora Flood in their all-time top seven? We'll never know because the flimsy piece has no byline.
Slight on steroids: Time did a splashy showcase of twenty-three prominent writers telling you what to read this summer. Great, except the print edition was six or eight pages of huge glam photos of the authors with teeny squibettes about the actual books. LGBT representation included Sapphire; Emma Donoghue on Neal Stephenson's Anathem; and Edmund White on The Lazarus Project. Some promising other mentions: Deborah Eisenberg suggested the NYRB Classic Skylark
Glam? I actually gasped when I arrived at one of those photos. I won't mention which one. And you're so rite about lite. Most unsatisfying.
Posted by: Sandy | August 01, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Terrible list indeed, but Stephen, I'd be curious to learn who you think are the great gay couples in literature are.
Posted by: Chadner | August 01, 2011 at 10:03 PM
The commentary on Brideshead Revisited is moronic. Waugh made it clear they were a gay couple.
Posted by: bob Smith | August 02, 2011 at 06:14 PM
You're right. Unrelenting junk food.
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