James Doig Anderson

Diaman is an experienced gay writer with seven novels and three memoirs under his belt.  This newest novel is a quiet, charming story of long loving relationships in San Francisco and Europe (Germany, then mostly in Paris) and finally, briefly, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  There are three chapters, the first named for Theo, the son of Greek emigrants from Istanbul, who opened a Greek bakery, which became a landmark in the Bay Area.  Theo works in a book store and becomes a manager.  He falls in love with Sebastian, an American son of Ethiopian parents.  Sebastian is a […]

Reiter, Jendi. Two Natures. Hilo, Hawaii: Saddle Road Press, c2016. 374 p. $22.00 (Amazon)  ISBN: 978-0-9969074-2-2. Two Natures is a literary quality gay novel by an award-winning author of poetry books and short stories.  Although this is Reiter’s first novel, it received a first prize in ‘best gay contemporary fiction’ from Rainbow Awards.  ‘Bildungsroman’, a charming German word for a coming-of-age novel, is an apt word to describe this story as it tells the story of Julian Selkirk, a native Atlantan on scholarship studying fashion photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. The novel takes place in New York City in the 1990s, ten years after […]