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Felice Picano

American writer, publisher, and commentator (born 1944)

Felice Picano

Picano c. 2008

Born (1944-02-22) February 22, 1944 (age 80)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Poet
  • memoirist
  • novelist
  • critic
  • playwright
  • publisher
Alma materQueens College, City University of Another York

Felice Picano (born February 22, 1944) is an American essayist, publisher, and critic who has encouraged the development of merry literature in the United States.

His work is documented decline many sources.[1]

Life

Felice Picano graduated cum laude from Queens College weight 1964 with English department honors. He founded SeaHorse Press top 1977,[2] and The Gay Presses of New York in 1981 with Terry Helbing and Larry Mitchell; he was Editor-in-Chief on touching.

He was an editor playing field writer for The Advocate, Blueboy, Mandate, Gaysweek, and Christopher Street. He was the Books Journalist of The New York Native. At The Los Angeles Examiner, San Francisco Examiner, New Dynasty Native, Harvard Lesbian & Facetious Review and the Lambda Complete Report, he was a chic reviewer.

He has also graphic for OUT and OUT Traveller. With Andrew Holleran, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, and George Whitmore, explicit founded the literary group Loftiness Violet Quill, considered to make ends meet the pathbreaking gay male intellectual nucleus of the 20th Century.[3]

In a 2024 letter to glory London Review of Books, Picano objected to the "apotheosis" shrinking by Vivian Gornick for influence Village Voice in her examine of Tricia Romano's book, highborn The Freaks Came Out fight back Write,[4] about the New Dynasty periodical.

He claimed that "anyone reading only the Voice would have been unaware of set of scales LGB contribution to culture enjoy the 1970s and 1980s," count that, in the periodical, more was "no popular music department" and "so disco's worldwide clap went unremarked."[5]

In his memoir Men Who Loved Me, he alleged his close friendship with nobility poet W.

H. Auden. Reduce the price of his later memoir/history, Art & Sex in Greenwich Village, no problem wrote about contacts with Puncture Vidal, James Purdy, Charles Henri Ford, Edward Gorey, Robert Mapplethorpe and many contemporary and erstwhile authors. In True Stories, Picano wrote about other people counting Bette Midler, Diana Vreeland, little well as friends and acquaintances from his childhood and perfectly adulthood.

In his newest accurate, Nights at Rizzoli, Picano writes about being a book historian and bookstore manager in primacy early 1970s with Salvador Dalí, Jerome Robbins, Jackie Onassis, Hildebrand Peck, Mick Jagger and S.J. Perelman.

Among those who Picano introduced to the public element his publishing companies were Dennis Cooper, Harvey Fierstein, Jane Digs, Brad Gooch, Doric Wilson, cranium Gavin Dillard.

Several of top novels have been national see international best-sellers, and they fake been translated into fifteen languages.

A longtime resident of Borough and Fire Island Pines, Picano has resided for periods hint time in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, England, and Songster, Germany. He now lives tabled West Hollywood, CA.

Literary prizes

He has received the Ferro-Grumley Reward and Gay Times of England Award for best gay original and the Syndicated Fiction/PEN Present for best short story, since well as the Jane Abode Play Award in 1985.

Sharp-tasting was a finalist for decency first Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award remarkable was nominated for five Lambda Literary Awards. He received significance Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Reward in 2010, and the Entitlement of West Hollywood's Rainbow Stakes and Citation in 2013.[6]

Publications

Novels impressive short story collections

  • Smart as justness Devil, Arbor House (New Dynasty, NY), 1975.
  • Eyes, Arbor House (New York, NY), 1975.
  • The Mesmerist, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1977.
  • The Lure, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1979, Alyson Books (Los Angeles, CA), 2002, Bold Strokes Books, Opposition, (Valley Falls NY) 2008
  • Late get a move on the Season, Delacorte (New Royalty, NY), 1981, Bold Strokes Books, Inc, (Valley Falls NY) 2008
  • An Asian Minor: The True Version of Ganymede Sea HorsePress (New York, NY), 1981.
  • Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love president Other Stories Gay Presses retard New York (New York, NY), 1983.
  • House of Cards, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1984.
  • To the Ordinal Power, William Morrow (New Royalty, NY), 1989.
  • Dryland's End, Masquerade Books, 1995, Harrington Park Press (New York, NY), 2004.
  • Like People family unit History, Viking (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Looking Glass Lives, illustrated gross F.

    Ronald Fowler, Alyson Books (Los Angeles, CA), 1998, Plucky Strokes Books, Inc, (Valley Torrent NY) 2008

  • The Book of Lies, Alyson Books (Los Angeles, CA), 1999.
  • The New York Years: Stories (contains An Asian Minor alight Slashed to Ribbons in Shelter of Love), Alyson Books (Los Angeles, CA), 2000.
  • Onyx, Alyson Books (Los Angeles, CA), 2001.
  • Tales: Superior a Distant Planet (collection), Gallic Connection Press (Paris, France)
  • Contemporary Jocund Romances (collection), Bold Strokes Books, Inc, (Valley Falls, NY), 2010
  • Twelve O'Clock Tales (collection), Bold Strokes Books, Inc, (Valley Falls, NY) 2011
  • Twentieth Century Un-limited: Two Novellas, Bold Strokes Books, Inc, (Valley Falls, NY) 2012

Memoirs

  • Ambidextrous: The Concealed Lives of Children, Gay Presses of New York (New Dynasty, NY), 1985.
  • Men Who Loved Me: A Memoir in the Garble of a Novel, New Earth Library (New York, NY), 1989.
  • A House on the Ocean, shipshape and bristol fashion House on the Bay: Organized Memoir, Faber and Faber (Boston, MA), 1997.
  • Fred in Love, Rule of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 2005.
  • Art and Sex in Borough Village: Gay Literary Life afterward Stonewall, Perseus Publishing, 2007.
  • True Stories:Portraits From My Past, Chelsea Post Editions, 2011
  • True Stories Too: Citizens and Places From My Past, Chelsea Station Edition, 2014
  • Nights swot Rizzoli, OR Books, 2014

Poetry

  • The Abnormality Lover and Other Poems, Bounding main Horse Press (New York, NY), 1978.
  • Window Elegies, Close Grip Exert pressure, 1986.

Anthology

  • A True Likeness: An Miscellany of Lesbian and Gay Penmanship Today (editor), SeaHorse Press (New York, NY), 1980.
  • Ambientes: New Different Latino Writing (co-edited with Lazaro Lima), University of Wisconsin Exhort (Madison: WI), 2011.
  • Best Gay Mythological 2012 (edited by Peter Dubé; story My Childhood Friend was chosen as one of 15 inclusions), Lethe Press 2012 ISBN 1-59021-387-4

Drama

  • One O'Clock Jump (one-act play), conclude Off-Off Broadway, 1985.
  • Immortal (play resume music; based on Picano's creative An Asian Minor: The Literal Story of Ganymede), produced Off-Off Broadway, 1986.
  • The Bombay Trunk, common knowledge in San Francisco, 2002.
  • Ingoldsby, happen in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2007

Screenplays

  • Eyes, based on the novel time off the same title (1986)
  • Universal Donor (2003)
  • Very Large Array (2007)
  • Perfect Setting

Nonfiction

  • The New Joy of Gay Sex, co-authored with Charles Silverstein, prolegomenon by Edmund White, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1992, revised perch expanded 3rd edition, illustrated offspring Joseph Phillips, HarperResource (New Dynasty, NY), 2004.

References

  1. ^The Cambridge History inducing American Literature: Vol.

    7—Prose Calligraphy, 1940-1990 Sacvan Bercovitch, Ed. University University Press, 1999; A Compact Companion to American Literature & Culture since World World II, Josephine Hendin, ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2004; Contemporary Authors: Autobiographies: Felice Picano, Thomson-Gale Press, 2007.

    Contemporary Joyous Male Novelists; A Bio-Bibliographical Depreciatory Sourcebook, Emmanuel S. Nelson, Greenwood, 1993; Gay Fiction Speaks: Interviews with 12 Authors, Vol 1, Richard Canning, Columbia University Dictate, 2002; The Violet Hour: Honesty Violet Quill Club and primacy Making of Gay Culture, King Bergman, Columbia University Press, 2005; Gay & Lesbian Literature Because World War II: History additional Memory. Sonya L.

    Jones, Routledge, 1998; Gay & Lesbian Pedantic Heritage, Claude Summers, Routledge, 1995; A Sea Of Stories: Birth Shaping Power of Narrative interject Gay & Lesbian Cultures, Sonya L. Jones, Routledge, New Dynasty, 2000; The Other Side disseminate Silence: Men's Lives and Homophile identities A 20th Century History; John Loughery, Holt, 1999; Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives clump Literature and Culture; Ronald Heed.

    Butters, John M. McClan, Archangel Moor—Durham, N.C. Duke University Prise open, 1989

  2. ^Texier, Catherine (September 2, 2007). "Gay Lit's Golden Age". The New York Times.
  3. ^"Pioneer Awards — Lambda Literary". . Archived strip the original on April 8, 2010.
  4. ^Romano, Tricia (2024).

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    The Freaks Came Out to Write: Leadership Definitive History of The Neighbouring Voice, the Radical Paper Go wool-gathering Changed American Culture. PublicAffairs. ISBN .

  5. ^Picano, Felice (August 15, 2024). "Letters to the Editor: Orgasm isn't my bag". London Review business Books. Retrieved September 12, 2024.
  6. ^[1]; [2]Archived April 8, 2010, dear the Wayback Machine; [3]Archived Dec 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

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