Douglas Stuart Comes Into His Own
News Source : Vulture
News Summary
- Douglas Stuart’s entry into the gay literary canon was swift, though it probably didn’t feel that way to the author.
- Stuart is a gay writer in the old-fashioned sense of the term in that his plots center on men who are attracted to men.
- In his new novel, John of John, he gets out of the city while introducing a wholly different cast of characters.
- He favors lengthy, lyrical novels that are ambitious in the breadth of their sociological detail.
Douglas Stuarts entry into the gay literary canon was swift, though it probably didnt feel that way to the author. Stuart, a fashion designer, spent a decade chipping away at his first novel, which w [+15139 chars]
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