Letters Diaries
| Outhouse East Library | 1 / 3 | |||
| Cover | Details | Summary | ||
 | In the Belly of the Beast | A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. When Normal Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, he received a letter from Jack Henry Abbott, a convict, in which Abbott offered to educate him in the realities of life in a maximum security prison. This book organizes Abbott's by now classic letters to Mailer, which evoke his infernal vision of the prison nightmare. | ||
| Jack Henry Abbott | ||||
| 1982 | ||||
| Law, Letters | ||||
| Book#: LTRD001 | ||||
 | One Art: The Selected Letters | From the letters Elizabeth Bishop wrote over 50 years - from 1928 when she was 17 (and already a poet) to her death in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux, her editor during her lifetime, has selected over 500, and has written an introduction. The letters constitute in one sense an autobiography, including the love story between Lota Soares and Bishop in Brazil, which ended in Lota's suicide 15 years later. The book records Bishop's intense relationship with her two mentors, Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell (who received more letters than anyone else), as well as her many friendships. | ||
| Robert Giroux, Elizabeth Bishop | ||||
| 1996 | ||||
| Lesbian, Letters | ||||
| Book#: LTRD002 | ||||
 | Venice Letters | This is a long-hidden collection of letters written by Baron Corvo to a potential customer of some Venetian boys in their early teens a century ago. The letters were known about but did not appear until a trio of slim books by Corvo were finally published many years after his death. The letters may be part fantasy, but they are our only glimpse into the world of young male prostitution in Venice prior to the First World War. They also provide a valuable look at the life and personality of one of the great eccentrics. | ||
| Cecil Woolf, Frederick Rolfe | ||||
| 1974 | ||||
| Letters | ||||
| Book#: LTRD003 | ||||
 | Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman | In 1986 the controversial film-maker Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive, and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the bleak coast of Dungeness, where he also wrote these journals. Looking back over his childhood, his "coming out" in the 1960s and his cinema career, the book is at once a volume of autobiography, a lament for a lost generation and a celebration of homosexuality. | ||
| Derek Jarman | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| AIDS/HIV, Diary, Film/Cinema, Gay | ||||
| Book#: LTRD004 | ||||
 | Gay Letters | The "love that dare not speak its name" may have had to live a covert existence through the centuries, but in print it has flourished. Gay men have inhabited every walk of life and in this collection of letters, the expression of affection, the violence of passion or simply the joy of life all find an outlet. Gay Letters has no political subtext except the fact that most of the letter-writers in the book are gay and, as a collage, their experiences combine in a joyous celebration of love and life. Witty, passionate, tortured, profoundly honest, these letters paint a delightful portrait of men who love men. | ||
| Estelle Kohler, James Jolly | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Gay, Letters | ||||
| Book#: LTRD005 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 2 / 3 | |||
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 | Game-Texts: A Guatemalan Journal | A combination of personal meditations, memories of a rural Alabama childhood, and the author's sex with Latin American boys. | ||
| Erskine Lane | ||||
| 1978 | ||||
| Diary, Gay | ||||
| Book#: LTRD006 | ||||
 | I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840 | Upon publication, the first volume of Anne Lister's diaries, I Know My Own Heart, met with celebration, delight, and some skepticism. How could an upper class Englishwoman, in the first half of the nineteenth century, fulfill her emotional and sexual needs when her sexual orientation was toward other women? How did an aristocratic lesbian manage to balance sexual fulfillment with social acceptability? Helena Whitbread, the editor of these diaries, here allows us an inside look at the long-running love affair between Anne Lister and Marianna Lawton, an affair complicated by Anne's infatuation with Maria Barlow. Anne travels to Paris where she discovers a new love interest that conflicts with her developing social aspirations. For the first time, she begins to question the nature of her identity and the various roles female lovers may play in the life of a gentrywoman. Though unequipped with a lesbian vocabulary with which to describe her erotic life, her emotional conflicts are co... | ||
| Helena Whitbread, Anne Lister | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| Diary, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: LTRD007 | ||||
 | The Orton Diaries | Fron December 1966 to his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era. They chronicle his life from his literary success to his sexual escapades. | ||
| John Lahr, Joe Orton | ||||
| 1987 | ||||
| Diary | ||||
| Book#: LTRD008 | ||||
 | Which of Us Two?: Story of a Love Affair | John Tasker and Colin Spencer met in 1957. The two young men, both in their early twenties, both uncertainly poised at the beginning of a career in the world of the arts, had much in common. Yet threatening tensions started to show themselves almost immediately. John was desperate to avoid National Service. Colin, though unwilling to admit or even fully realise it, was fast putting down roots within London's cultural life, where his stories were being published, his drawings sold, and where he was laying the foundations of many friendships. So began a conflict which was to pull them back and forth over the next two years, until John finally boarded ship for Australia and what turned out to be a permanent separation. "Which Of Us Two?" is a collection of the letters the lovers wrote to each other - Colin's were returned to him after John's death - linked by the author's memories of the time, and his attempts, often painfully honest, to make sense with the benefit of hindsight of what wa... | ||
| Colin Spencer | ||||
| 1991 | ||||
| Gay, Letters, Romance | ||||
| Book#: LTRD009 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 3 / 3 | |||
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 | Dear Sappho: A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters | A selection of letters documenting love between women over the last 140 years. These eloquent messages from famous, ordinary or anonymous women range from notes and letters, to postcards and e-mail. Some are thoughtful, others lustful but all express in different ways the power of lesbian love. | ||
| Kay Turner | ||||
| 1996 | ||||
| Lesbian, Letters | ||||
| Book#: LTRD010 | ||||
 | Puppies | Fall 1970 saw John Valentine writing for a fragile underground paper in downtown Hollywood. A decaying cardboard building housed its seedy premises, and short of anywhere else to live, he made his home in the rear office. "Peeling wallpaper. Broken windows. Unlockable locks. Bad plumbing. Most slumlike quarters I've ever had... In the absence of any kind of curtaining, I had newspapers taped over the windows... The bulding was the street-kids' social and community center. Anyone looking for a crashpad looked first there... It was a sexual paradise." | ||
| John Valentine | ||||
| 1988 | ||||
| Diary | ||||
| Book#: LTRD011 | ||||
 | Journal & Drawings | Contains the journal and drawings of Keith Vaughan. | ||
| Keith Vaughan | ||||
| 1966 | ||||
| Art/Photography, Diary | ||||
| Book#: LTRD012 | ||||
 | Keith Vaughan: Journals, 1939-1977 | Keith Vaughan's Journals merits a place among the greatest confessional writing of the twentieth century. Vaughan belonged to the Neo-Romantic group of landscape painters that included Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. Much troubled by his homosexuality, he began a diary in 1939, 'faced at the age of twenty-seven with what then seemed the likelihood of imminent extinction before I had properly got started'; and he would write until his suicide in 1977. Editor Alan Ross hails Vaughan's Journals as 'a self-portrait of astonishing honesty: devoid of disguise in any shape or form, or hypocrisy'. The earlier entries, covering the war years and his period of greatest creativity in the 1940s and 1950s, 'are revealing for the light they shed on a painter's character and, to a lesser extent, working methods'. The later pages chronicle 'a descent into hell . . . redeemed by their frankness, spleen and dry humour'. This edition reproduces the amplified version of the Journals that was fi... | ||
| Keith Vaughan | ||||
| 1989 | ||||
| Diary, Gay | ||||
| Book#: LTRD013 | ||||
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