Richard Canning 
Hear Us Out 
Conversations with Gay Novelists

The author of the acclaimed
Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade.
Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Readers will recognize names like Michael Cunningham, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning novel
The Hours inspired the hit movie; and others like Christopher Bram, Bernard Cooper, Stephen Mc Cauley, and Matthew Stadler. These accounts explore the vicissitudes of writing on gay male themes in fiction over the last thirty years—prejudices of the literary marketplace; social and political questions; the impact of AIDS; commonalities between gay male and lesbian fiction… and even some delectable bits of gossip.

Table of Content

Gary Indiana
Bernard Cooper
Christopher Bram
Michael Cunningham
Jim Grimsley
Stephen Mc Cauley
Colm Tóibín
Paul Russell
Peter Cameron
Matthew Stadler
Philip Hensher
Dale Peck

About the author

Richard Canning is lecturer in English and American literature at Sheffield University. He is author of
Gay Fiction Speaks (Columbia, 2001) and writes regularly for
The Independent.