Last night in New York City at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies ofthe City Univesity of New York on Fifth Avenue, the Lambda Literary Foundation presented their annual awards for best books. Lea DeLaria did a magnificent job hosting the awards and the Lambda production team headed by Ben Hodges did a terrific job of making it a special evening for all involved.
Gay Men's Debut Fiction
Clay's Way by Blair Mastbaum, Alyson Publications
Gay Men's Fiction
The Master by Colm Toibin, Scribner
Lesbian Debut Fiction
Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank, Firebrand Books
Lesbian Fiction
A Seahorse Year by Stacey D'Erasmo, Houghton Mifflin
Lesbian Poetry
Sweet to Burn by Beverly Burch, Gival Press
Gay Men's Poetry
Written in Water by Luis Cernuda, City Lights Publishers
Lesbian Mystery
Hancock Park by Katherine V. Forrest, Berkley Prime Crime
Gay Men's Mystery
Flight of Aquavit by Anthony Bidulka, Insomniac Press
Fiction Anthology
Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction edited by Donald Weise, Carroll & Graff
Nonfiction Anthology
I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Philips, Suspect Thoughts Press
Memoir/Autobiography
Name All the Animals by Alison Smith, Scribner
Biography
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux, W.W. Norton
Erotica
Best Gay Erotica 2005 edited by Richard Labonte, Cleis Press
Romance
Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger, HarperCollins
Children's/Young Adult
So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Humor
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, Little, Brown
Religion/Spirituality
Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love by Will Roscoe, Suspect Thoughts Press
Drama/Theater
I am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, Faber and Faber
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley, Tor
Transgender/GenderQueer
The Gender Frontier by Mariette Pathy Allen, Kehrer Verlag
Visual Arts/Photography
At Ease: Navy Men of World War II by Evan Bachner, Harry Abrams
LGBT Studies
For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Routledge
The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation winners for Short Fiction were presented to Quiara Alegria Hudes, Dennis Jordan, and C. Kevin Smith.
The Independent LGBT Press Award was presented to Bella Books.
The Editor’s Choice Award was presented to Richard Canning for Hear Us Out (Columbia University Press).
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- Jameson Currier
- Jameson Currier is the author of six novels: Where the Rainbow Ends, nominated for a Lambda Literary award, The Wolf at the Door, The Third Buddha, What Comes Around, The Forever Marathon, and A Gathering Storm; and four collections of short fiction: Dancing on the Moon; Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex; Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories; and The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, which was awarded a Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection. His short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, anthologies, and Web sites. His reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay literature and culture have been published in many national and local publications. In 2010 he launched Chelsea Station Editions, an independent press focused on gay literature. In 2011 he launched Chelsea Station, a literary journal of gay writing, now online at www.chelseastationmagazine.com. He currently resides in Manhattan and can be reached by e-mail at jimcurrier@aol.com.
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The Third Buddha
Available August 1, 2011 from Chelsea Station Editions
Author Jameson Currier expands his richly detailed storytelling to an international level, weaving together the intertwining stories of the search for a missing journalist in the Bamiyan region of Afghanistan with a young man's search for his older brother in Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11 into a sweeping, multi-cultural novel of what it means to be a gay citizen of the world.
The Wolf at the Door
Available from Chelsea Station Editions
A witty tour de force of spirits, spooks, and sinners, a supernatural roller coaster set in the Big Easy that is giddy, soulful, and sentimental.
"Currier is one of the few writers who can equally be literary, erotic, dramatic and damn funny, sometimes all in the same sentence." Sean Meriwether, The Silent Hustler
The Haunted Heart and Other Tales
ghost stories by Jameson Currier
In his newest collection of short stories, The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, author Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural.
“Jameson Currier’s The Haunted Heart and Other Tales expands upon the usual ghost story tropes by imbuing them with deep metaphorical resonance to the queer experience. Infused with flawed, three-dimensional characters, this first-rate collection strikes all the right chords in just the right places. Equal parts unnerving and heartrending, these chilling tales are testament to Currier’s literary prowess and the profound humanity at the core of his writing. Gay, straight, twisted like a pretzel…his writing is simply not to be missed by any reader with a taste for good fiction.”
Vince Liaguno, Dark Scribe Magazine
ghost stories by Jameson Currier
In his newest collection of short stories, The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, author Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural.
“Jameson Currier’s The Haunted Heart and Other Tales expands upon the usual ghost story tropes by imbuing them with deep metaphorical resonance to the queer experience. Infused with flawed, three-dimensional characters, this first-rate collection strikes all the right chords in just the right places. Equal parts unnerving and heartrending, these chilling tales are testament to Currier’s literary prowess and the profound humanity at the core of his writing. Gay, straight, twisted like a pretzel…his writing is simply not to be missed by any reader with a taste for good fiction.”
Vince Liaguno, Dark Scribe Magazine
Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson Currier
Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson Currier, published by Lethe Press, brings together 20 of the author’s short stories about the impact of AIDS on the gay community which have been written over the last three decades. Along with ten stories from Currier’s debut collection Dancing on the Moon (1993), praised by The Village Voice as “defiant and elegiac,” are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form. And for this new collection the author has also chosen stories that revolve around gay New Yorkers—those lost, those surviving, those displaced, those undaunted, and those who became expatriates.
"In these stories, Currier fictionalizes queer life and times from three decades of the AIDS era, capturing the years in his prose. It has the literary heft of Camus and the quiet urbanity of Cheever…. Currier chronicles not only a defining era in gay America, but the private lives of the people who triumphed through what looked like defeat. These lives are often so finely drawn, Currier never has to resort to cliché… Gritty, esoteric, funny and passionate, Currier’s courageous prose reminds us that we must never forget."
Lewis Whittington, EDGE
Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson Currier, published by Lethe Press, brings together 20 of the author’s short stories about the impact of AIDS on the gay community which have been written over the last three decades. Along with ten stories from Currier’s debut collection Dancing on the Moon (1993), praised by The Village Voice as “defiant and elegiac,” are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form. And for this new collection the author has also chosen stories that revolve around gay New Yorkers—those lost, those surviving, those displaced, those undaunted, and those who became expatriates.
"In these stories, Currier fictionalizes queer life and times from three decades of the AIDS era, capturing the years in his prose. It has the literary heft of Camus and the quiet urbanity of Cheever…. Currier chronicles not only a defining era in gay America, but the private lives of the people who triumphed through what looked like defeat. These lives are often so finely drawn, Currier never has to resort to cliché… Gritty, esoteric, funny and passionate, Currier’s courageous prose reminds us that we must never forget."
Lewis Whittington, EDGE