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The Gaudy Image

Michael Bronski

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An early, pre-Stonewall classic of gay literature, describing life among the community in New Orleans. Thomas Schwartz , wanders about in search of the Gaudy Image--that most masculine man, a dream lover who knows what he wants.

According to the book's publisher Maurice Girodias, "William Talsman" was the pseudonym of James M. Smith, whose name appears as the copyright owner of a slim volume of verse titled Notes From The Underworld [William-Frederick Press, 1961], the only other book ever published under the name "William Talsman".

The Gaudy Image has been completely forgotten, and unjustly so. A chronicle of the promiscuous gay lifestyle, set in the French Quarter of New Orleans, in both style and tone it's strongly reminiscent of Ford and Tyler's The Young And Evil, published by Girodias's father Jack Kahane twenty-five years earlier. Roger Austen, in his book Playing The Game, cites this book as a milestone in the development of the gay lit genre, and laments how few modern readers have heard of it : "Today only a few fly-specked, pirated editions are to be seen in the hardcore sections of secondhand bookstores, and hardly anyone has read this breezy star-spangled poem in praise of hunting, finding, and loving a grinning muscular male with black hair."

The book very nearly wasn't published by Olympia. A catalog of '58 listed "The Porridge Tasters," by M. Meeske, featuring drugs in NY, as the work to expect. That book didn't get written; this one did.

Language: English

Pages: 282

Format: Mass Market Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781563332630

The Gaudy Image

Michael Bronski

0/5 ( ratings)

An early, pre-Stonewall classic of gay literature, describing life among the community in New Orleans. Thomas Schwartz , wanders about in search of the Gaudy Image--that most masculine man, a dream lover who knows what he wants.

According to the book's publisher Maurice Girodias, "William Talsman" was the pseudonym of James M. Smith, whose name appears as the copyright owner of a slim volume of verse titled Notes From The Underworld [William-Frederick Press, 1961], the only other book ever published under the name "William Talsman".

The Gaudy Image has been completely forgotten, and unjustly so. A chronicle of the promiscuous gay lifestyle, set in the French Quarter of New Orleans, in both style and tone it's strongly reminiscent of Ford and Tyler's The Young And Evil, published by Girodias's father Jack Kahane twenty-five years earlier. Roger Austen, in his book Playing The Game, cites this book as a milestone in the development of the gay lit genre, and laments how few modern readers have heard of it : "Today only a few fly-specked, pirated editions are to be seen in the hardcore sections of secondhand bookstores, and hardly anyone has read this breezy star-spangled poem in praise of hunting, finding, and loving a grinning muscular male with black hair."

The book very nearly wasn't published by Olympia. A catalog of '58 listed "The Porridge Tasters," by M. Meeske, featuring drugs in NY, as the work to expect. That book didn't get written; this one did.

Language: English

Pages: 282

Format: Mass Market Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781563332630

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