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Maupin, Armistead (1944—)
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City came into being in 1976 as a newspaper serial in the daily San Francisco Chronicle. Just as readers a century earlier eager...
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Armistead Maupin has established himself as one of the best-known openly gay contemporary American writers. He creates realistic gay male characters who share the same fears and joys that are central ...
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In the review below, Clifton describes Sure of You as a dark finale to the Tales series set "in a city now haunted by AIDS."
Armistead Maupin is a jovial fellow, a witty gay writer who c...
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In the following review, Block describes the tone of Sure of You as serious, noting the novel's concern with such themes as the AIDS crisis and homosexuality.
"The thing of calling somet...
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In the following review, Solomon remarks favorably on the Tales series.
Bedtime stories for Baby Boomers. Armistead Maupin's continuing saga of life in San Francisco began as a serial in the Ch...
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Waugh, the daughter of English novelist Evelyn Waugh, is an English editor, critic, and novelist whose works include Kate's House (1983). In the following review, she examines the Tales novels,...
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In the following review of Sure of You, Gerrard praises the story as a "bright, funny, engaging and loquacious soap."
Writers—like Dickens or even Fay Weldon—have written n...
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In the following review, Glyde favorably assesses the Tales novels, discussing the difference in tone of the first three volumes with that of the last three.
The daily column in the form of a story (n...
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In the review below, Solomon remarks favorably on Sure of You.
The seventh installment in the popular Tales of the City series continues Armistead Maupin's chronicle of contemporary life in a r...
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The author of The Gay Novel: The Male Homosexual Image in America (1983), Levin is an American educator, biographer, and nonfiction writer. In the following excerpt, he contends that Tales of the City...
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In the following review, Hagan compares the themes of Maybe the Moon with those of the Tales novels.
It's an airy spacious place, a penthouse cresting a Noe Valley hill, that Armistead Maupin c...
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Johnson is an American novelist and critic. In the following review of Maybe the Moon, she centers on the theme of discrimination and the protagonist Cady Roth.
Cadence (Cady) Roth longs to be a real ...
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In the following review of Maybe the Moon, Ulin contends that the characters are stereotypical and the story fails to mirror real life.
Back in the late '70's, Armistead Maupin came up w...
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The author of States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980), White is an American educator, novelist, essayist, and critic. In the following review, he describes Maupin's dialogue in Maybe th...
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In the following review of Maybe the Moon, Mars-Jones charges that the story is poorly paced, the characterizations are lackluster, and the themes lack consistently serious treatment.
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In the following review, Austin favorably assesses Babycakes, predicting that the book will win over some of Maupin's critics.
Queen Elizabeth has arrived in San Francisco; just as Mary Ann Sin...
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In the following excerpted essay, which is based on a conversation with Maupin, Spain discusses Maupin's homosexual themes and attitudes, the AIDS crisis and its effect on his writing, his meth...
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In the following favorable review, Baldwin discusses the development of character and theme in Significant Others.
First, up popped Tales of the City in 1978, a collection of his serialized newspaper ...
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In the following review of Significant Others, Mars-Jones contends that the story lacks the "inventiveness" and "high camp" of Maupin's earlier pre-AIDS novels.
Sign...
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In the following review of Significant Others, Lumsden describes Maupin's writing as "urbane" and notes his propensity for humorous assessments of both hetero- and homosexuals.
As...
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An American educator and critic, Kendrick is the author of The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (1980). In the following essay, he focuses on the development of the characters...
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An American novelist, essayist, and critic, Feinberg was a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). His final work, Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone, was publi...
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Maupin, Armistead (1944—)
Armistead Maupin
Critical Review by Tony Clifton
