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The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by “the paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times)“Can't sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him... The genius who deserted me was you.” In a series of late-night letters, gorgeous, funny, filled with memory, sensuality, and regret, a seducer calls across the years to the great love of his youth: an older, revered expatriate known, in his adoptive city, as the King of Naples. As the narrator evokes their affair, in scenes of beauty and remorse, his memories range over the men who came after and before, especially the seductive father who still haunts his erotic imagination. First published in 1978, before the trilogy of frankly autobiographical novels that made him famous, Nocturnes for the King of Naples reveals Edmund White at his most poetic, playful, and evocative, a magician on the level of James Salter, James Merrill, or Vladimir Nabokov.

Ruggero es un aristócrata siciliano, clavecinista, extremadamente culto y hermoso que le lleva cuarenta años a Constance, su pareja, que es norteamericana, curiosa, inteligente, hermosa y huérfana. En el invierno de 2050, mientras pasan una temporada en un pueblo suizo de esquiadores, deciden escribir sus memorias y leérselas mutuamente. Entre lecturas y reflexiones en torno a la vida que llevaron, empiezan a aparecer hechos inesperados. Constance revela sus fallidos matrimonios con hombres mayores y Ruggero detalla las aventuras que ha tenido con hombres y mujeres a lo largo de su vida; la más importante, su aventura con el escritor Edmund White. Esta hermosa y sofisticada novela sobre la escritura y el amor, sobre el arte y las relaciones, que a la manera de Henry James indaga en el vínculo entre la culta Europa y la potente y joven Norteamérica, es uno de los mejores de los muchos libros de White, y también el más reciente.

Ruggero es un aristócrata siciliano, clavecinista, extremadamente culto y hermoso que le lleva cuarenta años a Constance, su pareja, que es norteamericana, curiosa, inteligente, hermosa y huérfana. En el invierno de 2050, mientras pasan una temporada en un pueblo suizo de esquiadores, deciden escribir sus memorias y leérselas mutuamente. Entre lecturas y reflexiones en torno a la vida que llevaron, empiezan a aparecer hechos inesperados. Constance revela sus fallidos matrimonios con hombres mayores y Ruggero detalla las aventuras que ha tenido con hombres y mujeres a lo largo de su vida; la más importante, su aventura con el escritor Edmund White. Esta hermosa y sofisticada novela sobre la escritura y el amor, sobre el arte y las relaciones, que a la manera de Henry James indaga en el vínculo entre la culta Europa y la potente y joven Norteamérica, es uno de los mejores de los muchos libros de White, y también el más reciente.

From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino.Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with Aldwych. But eventually August starts bringing home other men, and a formidable woman in Aldwych's circle named Ernestine also takes a deep interest in the young, enchanting star. Messy entanglements and fierce rivalries ensue, and the result is an unforgettable, outrageous tragicomedy that explores the many layers of love and sexual desire as only Edmund White can.

La hermosa habitación está vacía, segunda parte de la trilogía autobiográfica iniciada con Historia de un chico, sigue a nuestro personaje a lo largo de una nueva etapa de su vida –finales de los años cincuenta y década del sesenta– en la que emprenderá el camino que lo lleve a dejar de considerar su sexualidad como una enfermedad, digna de culpa y desprecio. Así, entre el fugaz contacto con desconocidos en baños públicos, el descubrimiento de sus nuevos amigos bohemios y la feliz y turbulenta compañía de otros hombres gays que viven su identidad con desenfado, el narrador se abrirá camino hacia una mudanza a Nueva York, donde será testigo y protagonista de una fuerza liberadora, tanto personal como colectiva.

La hermosa habitación está vacía, segunda parte de la trilogía autobiográfica iniciada con Historia de un chico, sigue a nuestro personaje a lo largo de una nueva etapa de su vida –finales de los años cincuenta y década del sesenta– en la que emprenderá el camino que lo lleve a dejar de considerar su sexualidad como una enfermedad, digna de culpa y desprecio. Así, entre el fugaz contacto con desconocidos en baños públicos, el descubrimiento de sus nuevos amigos bohemios y la feliz y turbulenta compañía de otros hombres gays que viven su identidad con desenfado, el narrador se abrirá camino hacia una mudanza a Nueva York, donde será testigo y protagonista de una fuerza liberadora, tanto personal como colectiva.

______________'Elegant, filthy – and quite possibly the queerest thing you will read all year.'- Guardian'Intriguing and inventive.'- Electric Literature,'Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year''A dizzyingly enticing and kaleidoscopic take on the spectrum of sexual experiences.'- Publishers Weekly, starred review_____________A daring, category-confounding, and ruthlessly funny novel from National Book Award honored author Edmund White that explores polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love.Sicilian aristocrat and musician, Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked their previous marriages. As the two alternate reading the memoirs they've written about their lives, Constance reveals her multiple marriages to older men, and Ruggero details the affairs he's had with men and women across his lifetime-most importantly his passionate affair with the author Edmund White.Sweeping outward from the isolated Swiss ski chalet where the couple reads to travel through Europe and the United States, White's new novel pushes for a broader understanding of sexual orientation and pairs humor and truth to create his most fascinating and complex characters to date. As in all of White's earlier novels, this is a searing, scintillating take on physical beauty and its inevitable decline. But in this experimental new mode-one where the author has laid himself bare as a secondary character-White explores the themes of love and age through numerous eyes, hearts and minds.Delightful, irreverent, and experimental, A Previous Life proves once more why White is considered a master of American literature.

Historia de un chico es una obra maestra, una novela de iniciación y un clásico de la literatura gay. En el conservador Medio Oeste de los Estados Unidos, en la segunda posguerra, el narrador, un joven de precoz curiosidad intelectual, sensibilidad artística y anhelo romántico se enfrentará a los ritos propios del paso de la infancia a la adolescencia, y al descubrimiento de su propia homosexualidad, de la que buscará'curarse'. Historia de un chico es además una puerta al enorme y singular atlas literario de Edmund White y su forma de ver el mundo o, más precisamente, de recorrerlo y de leerlo. White es ese tipo de escritor que parece impulsado por el registro incansable de sus lecturas y sus experiencias. Novelista, ensayista, cronista, biógrafo de Proust, Rimbaud y Jean Genet, supo dotar al territorio norteamericano en el que nació y creció, no de una identidad, sino una sensibilidad para ver el mundo y mirarse a sí mismo.'Una mezcla de El guardián en el centeno con De profundis, de J. D. Salinger con Oscar Wilde.'The New York Times

Historia de un chico es una obra maestra, una novela de iniciación y un clásico de la literatura gay. En el conservador Medio Oeste de Estados Unidos en la segunda posguerra, el narrador, un joven de precoz curiosidad intelectual, sensibilidad artística y anhelo romántico se enfrentará a los ritos propios del paso de la infancia a la adolescencia, y al descubrimiento de su propia homosexualidad, de la que buscará'curarse'. Historia de un chico es también una puerta al enorme y singular atlas literario de Edmund White y su forma de ver el mundo o, más precisamente, de recorrerlo y de leerlo. White es ese tipo de escritor que parece impulsado por el registro incansable de sus lecturas y sus experiencias. Novelista, ensayista, memorialista, biógrafo de Proust, Rimbaud y Jean Genet, supo dotar al territorio norteamericano, donde nació y creció, no de una identidad sino una sensibilidad para ver el mundo y mirarse a sí mismo.'Una mezcla de El guardián en el centeno con De profundis, de J. D. Salinger con Oscar Wilde'. The New York Times

______________'An epic novel'- Telegraph'A worldly wise delight'- Observer'Another brilliant accomplishment from one of the country's most indispensable writers'- Texas Observer______________From legendary writer Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthoodYvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far grander fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbour their own secrets and dreams – ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jericó, Colombia. And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radically different lives, the twins find that the bonds of family and the past are unbreakable.Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White's marvellous novel serves up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse varied worlds: the swaggering opulence of the Dallas nouveau riche, the airless pretention of the Paris gratin and the strict piety of a Colombian convent.______________'Like a waltz that goes out of control, this is a wild, dizzying, joyful romp... I loved it'- Ann Beattie'White's deeply satisfying character study demonstrates his profound abilities'- Publishers Weekly'One of the three or four most virtuosic living writers of sentences in the English language'- Dave Eggers'... sacred as well as secular, and always sensuously alive'- Joyce Carol Oates

From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jericó, Colombia. And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radically different lives, the twins find that the bonds of family and the past are unbreakable. Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White's marvelous novel serves up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse varied worlds: the swaggering opulence of the Dallas nouveau riche, the airless pretension of the Paris gratin, and the strict piety of a Colombian convent. For nearly half a century, Edmund White's work has revitalized American literature, blithely breaking down boundaries of class and sexuality, and A Saint From Texas is one of his most joyous, gorgeously written, and piercing works to date.

En tiempos en que se documenta a lo vivo hasta el último resquicio de las vidas privadas y de los rituales colectivos de ese infierno que son los otros, un libro como Estados del deseo nos recuerda que hasta hace no mucho las sociedades contemporáneas convivíamos con un bien en vías de extinción: el misterio. Vilipendiada, demonizada y perseguida, la cultura gay constituía (aun en los Estados Unidos) una terra incognita que merecía, y exigía, el compromiso de una inspección docta. Dragueado de etnógrafo, Edmund White estudia las costumbres y los caprichos de las comunidades de homosexuales dispersas por el vasto territorio norteamericano a fines de los años setenta, atento a las modulaciones que les imprimen la época, la geografía, las religiones y las distintas tensiones raciales y culturales. El resultado es un informe que para el lector contemporáneo es oro en polvo. O en polvos, porque en su transgresión constante de las reglas de la etnografía straight, White se permite ser observador participante y también informante nativo, compartiendo tragos, experiencias, perspectivas y lecho con quienes lo guían en su periplo. Así las cosas, Estados del deseo es mucho más que la descripción densa de una cultura en la que nos cuesta reconocernos. Es un libro en el que la sed de registro auspicia reflexiones antropológicas hondas y de largo alcance, relevantes hasta el día de hoy, pero que a su vez almacena los sueños y las alucinaciones utópicas de una generación que pocos años más tarde iba a ser diezmada por la crisis del sida. Mariano López Seoane'Todo libro de Edmund White, el gran patriarca de los escritores gays norteamericanos, será previsiblmente un gran libro'. Rodrigo Fresán, Página/12

______________'I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White … Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page'- Observer'One of the great prose stylists of our time … There are few paragraphs that pass by without an illuminating, wise or funny comment'- Tim Smith-Laing, Daily Telegraph'A rallying cry for the pleasures of reading... The best writers are energetic readers, constantly diving for buried treasure. Anyone who encounters this book is likely to emerge with something new and gleaming'- Financial Times______________Edmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels.White's larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a sensitive, smart account of a life in literature.

This book is a compilation of CRS reports on electric power. The large-scale damage caused by Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria is examined in the context of policy options Congress may consider in order to help remediate such damage to the electrical grid in the future. Alternative electric power structures are examined for their ability to meet the post-Hurricane-Maria needs of Puerto Rico. The proposed Environmental Protection Agency plan to lower carbon emissions by providing each state with a carbon reduction target number.

Eine Liebeserklärung an die schwule Liebe - aus der Feder von Paaren! Aktuelle und verflossene Liebschaften, Leidenschaft und Alltag, Langzeitpartnerschaften oder das Prickeln neuer Beziehungen - die tagtägliche Realität der Liebe ist vielfältig. Diese Anthologie erzählt auch von einer Zeit der Verluste, in der viele Männer ihre Partner verloren haben, und davon, wie dies allein durch Entschlossenheit und Lebenswillen erträglich ist. Aber vor allem erzählt sie von etwas Zeitlosem: der Liebe.'I love you', das bewegende, witzige und erotische Dokument schwuler Liebe, erschien erstmals 1998 - jetzt endlich wieder zu haben und nur als eBook bei Bastei Entertainment!

A declaration of love - gay couples talk about their significant other. Current and past liaisons, passion and daily routine, longtime relationships and the tingle of first dates - the day-to-day reality of love is manifold. This anthology also tells about a time of loss, when many men lost their partners - and how hope and the will to live prevail. But most of all, this eBook is about something timeless: Love.'Two Hearts Desire', the touching, erotic, and funny portrayal of gay love, was first published in 1997 - now available in digital format for the first time. Only at Bastei Entertainment!

Our Young Man follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Like Wilde's Dorian Grey, Guy never seems to age; at thirty-five he is still modeling, still enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe he's twenty-three--though their attentions always come at a price. Ambivalently, Guy lets them believe, driven especially by the memory of growing up poor, until he finds he needs the lie to secure not only wealth, but love itself. Surveying the full spectrum of gay amorous life through the disco era and into the age of AIDS, Edmund White (who worked at Vogue for ten years) explores the power of physical beauty--to fascinate, to enslave, and to deceive--with sparkling wit and pathos.

______________'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book'- Sunday Telegraph'An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris'- Guardian'White's genius as a flâneur is revealed in his affinity for unexpected pleasures, and he includes many for our delectation'- New Yorker______________ A unique and eclectic view of Paris through the eyes of a fierce and witty intellect. A flâneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic. Acclaimed writer Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the avenues and along the quays, into parts of the city virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris.______________'One has the impression of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn't otherwise see... White tells such a good story that I'm ready to listen to anything he wants to talk about'- New York Times Book Review

Das Finanzsystem durchlebt eine schwere Krise, die führende Weltmacht foltert feindliche Kämpfer auf einer entlegenen Insel und viele, vor allem arme Menschen sterben an einer gefährlichen Geschlechtskrankheit. Literarisch hochbegabte Autoren sind beim breiten Publikum unbekannt und bitterarm, zudem weigern sich die Verlage, ihren Lesern Bücher über Homosexuelle zuzumuten. Mit Hotel de Dream hat Edmund White einen hochaktuellen Roman geschrieben – er spielt im New York des Jahres 1900. Der Roman beschreibt die letzten (fiktiven) Tage im Leben des (realen) Autors Stephen Crane, einer Art „James Dean“ der amerikanischen Literatur Ende des 19. Jhdts. Diesem sehr „normalen“ jungen Mann läuft eines Tages der kleine Stricher Elliott in die Arme, Crane gibt ihm zu essen und die beiden lernen sich kennen. Den Tod vor Augen wagt Stephen Crane es einige Jahre später, das Leben dieses Straßenjungen literarisch aufzuarbeiten, obwohl er weiß, dass ein solches Buch im prüden Amerika niemals erscheinen wird. Edmund White kombiniert virtuos reale Fakten und Personen mit literarischer Fantasie. Sein „City Boy“ Elliott führt die Leser durch die homosexuelle Unterwelt New Yorks zur vorigen Jahrhundertwende, und gleichzeitig empfängt der Autor Crane in seinem englischen Exil Berühmtheiten wie Henry James und Joseph Conrad, die beide zu dieser Zeit genau wie er weitgehend mittellos sind; ihre Porträts sind kleine Meisterwerke voller Liebe und Bosheit. Mit dem Roman im Roman über den kleinen Elliott erzählt White eine wundervolle Liebesgeschichte, die ihre Wucht nicht zuletzt aus den feindlichen Umständen gewinnt, gegen die sie sich behaupten muss.

______________'Paris may well be White's pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund White … Entertaining and wry, White is worldly-wise and wise'- Eileen Battersby, Irish Times'Edmund White writing about his Paris years, with walk-on parts for Catherine Deneuve, Yves Saint-Laurent and other assorted members of the French glitterati? That'd be Inside a Pearl'– Scotsman'We are lucky to have him still publishing … diverting, affectionate … and full of tips'- London Evening Standard______________ A literary treat of a memoir, covering Edmund White's years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s ParisEdmund White was forty-three years old when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city, but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. White fell passionately in love with Paris, its beauty in the half-light and eternal mists; its serenity compared with the New York he had known.Intoxicated and intellectually stimulated by its culture, he became the definitive biographer of Jean Genet, wrote lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud. Frequent trips across the Channel to literary parties in London begot friendships with Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis and many others. When he left, fifteen years later, to return to the US, he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and as a journalist had made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves St Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. He'd also developed a close friendship with an older woman, Marie-Claude, through whom he'd come to a deeper understanding of French life.Inside a Pearl vividly recalls those fertile years, and offers a brilliant examination of a city and a culture eternally imbued with an aura of enchantment.

“An extraordinary novel” about growing up gay in the 1950s American Midwest (The New York Times Book Review). Critically lauded upon its initial publication in 1982 for its pioneering depiction of homosexuality, A Boy's Own Story is a moving tale about coming-of-age in midcentury America. With searing clarity and unabashed wit, Edmund White's unnamed protagonist yearns for what he knows to be shameful. He navigates an uneasy relationship with his father, confounds first loves, and faces disdain from his peers at school. In the embrace of another, he discovers the sincere and clumsy pleasures of adolescent sexuality. But for boys in the 1950s, these desires were unthinkable. Looking back on his experiences, the narrator notes, “I see now that what I wanted was to be loved by men and to love them back but not to be a homosexual.” From a winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, this trailblazing autobiographical story of one boy's youth is a moving, tender, and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to grow up.

Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel.Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with several women. He sees a shrink and practices extreme discretion about his gay adventures since the book begins in the 1960s, before gay liberation, and ends after the advent of AIDS in the 1980s. Jack's friend, Will Wright, comes from old stock, has aspirations to be a writer, and like Jack works on the Northern Review, a staid cultural quarterly. Will is shy and lonely-and Jack introduces him to the beautiful, brittle young woman he will marry. Over the years Will discovers his sensuality and almost destroys his marriage in doing so. Towards the end of the 1970s Jack's and Will's lives merge as they both become accomplished libertines.Jack Holmes and his Friend deploys Edmund White's wonderful perceptions of American society to dazzling effect, as character after character is delicately and colourfully rendered and one social milieu after another glows in the reader's mind. He is a connoisseur of the nuances of personality and mood, and here unveils his very human cast in all their radical individuality. New York itself is a principle character with its old society and its bohemians rich and poor, with its sleek European immigrants and its rough-and-tumble transplanted Midwesterners. With narrative daring and a gifted sense of the rueful submerged drama of life, the novel is a beautifully sculpted exploration of sexuality and sensibility.

______________'This comedy of sexual manners may be White's finest novel'- Sunday Times'An elegant study of the paradoxes and half-truths that emerge in long-standing friendships'- New Yorker'Marks White out as an immensely gifted chronicler of the intricacies of the human heart'- Alex Clark, Guardian______________ Jack Holmes is suffering from unrequited love. It doesn't look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for: the other men he takes to bed never stay for long.Jack's friend Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to be a writer and, like Jack, works on the Northern Review. Jack will introduce Will to the beautiful, brittle young woman he will marry, but is discreet about his own adventures in love - for this is sixties New York, literary and intense, before gay liberation; a concoction of old society, bohemians rich and poor, sleek European immigrants and transplanted Midwesterners. Against this charged backdrop, the different lives of Jack and Will intertwine, and as their loves come and go, they will always be, at the very least, friends.

Discover the darker side of the Garden State with this anthology of gritty mystery stories.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographical area of the book. In New Jersey Noir, a star-studded cast of authors sifts through the hidden dirt of the Garden State.Featuring brand-new stories (and a few poems) by Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White & Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Pulitzer Prize–winner Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano.Praise for New Jersey Noir“Oates's introduction to Akashic's noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative definition of the genre, is alone worth the price of the book... Highlights include Lou Manfredo's “Soul Anatomy,” in which a politically connected rookie cop is involved in a fatal shooting in Camden; S.J. Rozan's “New Day Newark,” in which an elderly woman takes a stand against two drug-dealing gangs; and Jonathan Santlofer's “Lola,” in which a struggling Hoboken artist finds his muse.... Poems by C.K. Williams, Paul Muldoon, and others—plus photos by Gerald Slota—enhance this distinguished entry.” —Publishers Weekly“It was inevitable that this fine noir series would reach New Jersey. It took longer than some readers might have wanted, but, oh boy, was it worth the wait... More than most of the entries in the series, this volume is about mood and atmosphere more than it is about plot and character... It should go without saying that regular readers of the noir series will seek this one out, but beyond that, the book also serves as a very good introduction to what is a popular but often misunderstood term and style of writing.” —Booklist, Starred Review“A lovingly collected assortment of tales and poems that range from the disturbing to the darkly humorous.” —Shelf Awareness

______________'An open-throttled tour of New York City during the bad old days of the 1960s and early'70s... it's all here in exacting and eye-popping detail'- New York Times'Energetic evocation of Manhattan in the Sixties and Seventies... an absorbing insight into the life alongside a constellation of greats of the American literary and gay scenes'- Harper's Bazaar'At once fascinating social history and sublimely detailed gossip'- John Irving______________In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson.This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult. Combining the no-holds-barred confession and yearning of A Boy's Own Story with the easy erudition and sense of place of The Flaneur, this is the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to erotic entanglements downtown to the burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers. It's a moving, candid, brilliant portrait of a time and place, full of encounters with famous names and cultural icons.

From the National Book Award honored author of A Previous Life and a master of American literature comes a dazzling collection of 25 years of groundbreaking essays that redefined politics, language, identity, and friendship.“A testament to White's versatility, his insatiable curiosity about the emergence of gays in modern American life…. Fascinating.” —San Francisco Chronicle Along with his essays of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince.

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers'only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.

The celebrated novelist and influential cultural critic's classic biography of one of history's most important writers, Marcel ProustIf there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award- winning writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession. White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive work through the night, but also the darling of Parisian salons, the grasper after honors, and the closeted homosexual-a subject this book is the first to explore openly. From the frothiest gossip to the deepest angst, here is a moving portrait to be treasured by anyone looking for an introduction to this literary icon.

In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of an infamous Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream. In the midst of gathering tragedy, Crane begins dictating what will surely be his final work: a strange and poignant novel of a boy prostitute in 1890s New York and the married man who ruins his own life to win his love.

In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult. Combining the no-holds-barred confession and yearning of A Boy's Own Story with the easy erudition and sense of place of The Flaneur, this is the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to erotic entanglements downtown to the burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers. I t's a moving, candid, brilliant portrait of a time and place, full of encounters with famous names and cultural icons.

A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians. In the hands of the learned White, a walk through Paris is both a tour of its lush, sometimes prurient history, and an evocation of the city's spirit.The Flaneur leads us to bookshops and boutiques, monuments and palaces, giving us a glimpse the inner human drama. Along the way we learn everything from the latest debates among French lawmakers to the juicy details of Colette's life.Originally published as part of Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series, this book has sold consistently over the years, and will find a whole new audience in paperback.