QueerType: Chelsea Station Issue 3 now available

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Chelsea Station Issue 3 now available

The third issue of Chelsea Station, the popular new literary magazine of gay writing, edited by Jameson Currier, features twelve short stories, ten poems, and essays, reviews and other writing relating to gay literature. Contributors hail from New York, Canada, Scotland, France, Brazil, China, California, Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Provincetown, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Istanbul, and Paris.

Contributors include George Bixby, Mu Cao, Alan Chin, Steven Cordova, Aaron Crippen, Mike Dressel, Michael Graves, Aaron Hamburger, Richard Johns, Amos Lassen, David Lewis, Jeff Lindemann, Jeff Mann, Kelly McQuain, David Derbin Nolta, Roberto Carlos Ortiz, J.M. Parker, Rogério Meireles Pinto, Dennis Rhodes, Raymond Soltysek, Jonathan Vatner, Vicente R. Viray, Ian Young and Stephen Zerance.

Print and digital issues are available from a variety of retailers. A single copy print issue is $15. A single digital issue is $7.99 and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and lit formats.

Print and digital subscriptions are also available through the Chelsea Station Editions bookstore, located at http://chelseastationeditions.bigcartel.com/.

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

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