'I'm Not A Gay Writer, I'm A Monster. Gay Writers Are Too Conservative.' Are American Readers Finally Ready For James Purdy?
"Despite praise in his lifetime from Langston Hughes, Susan Sontag, Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, as well as " in later years " John Waters and Jonathan Franzen, Purdy … cast out by the US literary establishment," which wasn't ready for either his experimental style or his outré subject matter. (Nelson Algren called one of Purdy's […]
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