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Edmund White is a master stylist who has produced acclaimed novels, intrepid and insightful nonfiction on gay society, and semi- autobiographical novels that combine the best features of fiction and n...
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Edmund White is unarguably the preeminent author of the white gay male subculture. His career coincides almost exactly with the rise of the modern gay movement in the 1960s, and his work documents art...
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In the following review, Bailey discusses White's States of Desire, and how the book deals with the issue of bigotry against homosexuals.
I was living in America when Anita Bryant, a mediocre w...
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In the following interview, White discusses his career and his life as a gay writer.
Cambridge University scholar Ryan Prout interviewed the renowned author while Edmund White was in England last May....
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In the following review, Dickstein discusses White's Skinned Alive and asserts that, "In writing about AIDS yet keeping it at bay, he has turned a mortal threat into a surprising source ...
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In the following review, Wood discusses White's The Burning Library and Skinned Alive.
Edmund White has always struggled between appeasing the gods of his art and paying off the princelings of ...
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In the following review, Rose discusses the verbal stylization and psychological realism of White's Caracole.
Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier has been called the finest French novel w...
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In the following review, Mars-Jones lauds White's Caracole and says, "This suavely alien world can give intense and almost continuous pleasure."
Caracole is less a novel by the au...
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In the following review, Blaise asserts that White's The Beautiful Room is Empty "is packaged as an autobiographical novel, yet as a novel its flaws reduce its value and interest conside...
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In the following review, Lemon praises White's The Beautiful Room is Empty, but complains that "the ending's exhilarations [are a diminishment of the power and beauty of what had ...
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In the following interview, White discusses the autobiographical nature of his work and what he thinks about literature.
[Bonetti:] Mr. White, can you fill us in on some background about yourself? Do ...
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In the following review, Dyson complains that, "The problem with Trios is that it plays as if real dramatic skill in writing and direction has not been applied."
Fresh from a biography o...
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In the following review, Powell complains that, "As so often in the book, [The Burning Library White's admirable capacity for sympathetic understanding not only inhibits his critical jud...
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Critical Essay by William R. Evans
Holden Caulfield was right, America is full of phonies. More of them infest the literary jungle than any other part of our society. When a writer wants to tell a tri...
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Critical Essay by Simon Karlinsky
[Forgetting Elena] utilizes a marvelously fresh and inventive narrative device right from the very beginning: an amnesiac young man gradually realizes that he is caug...
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Critical Essay by J. D. Mcclatchy
In [Nocturnes for the King of Naples], White resumes his exploration of the textuality of experience, but moves from ritual to romance.
As its pretext, the novel evok...
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Critical Essay by John Yohalem
The impressionistic novel is getting a new lease on life from Edmund White, whose dreamy "Forgetting Elena" had a success of esteem some years back, and wh...
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Critical Essay by Richard Goldstein
White is the co-author of The Joy of Gay Sex, perhaps the drolest example of that most persistent genre, the how-to-feel-good-about-being-dirty Baedeker, and States...
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Critical Essay by Paul Cowan
If there were a truth-in-packaging law for books, Edmund White's "States of Desire" would violate it. For he subtitles his book "Travels in Gay...
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Critical Review by Paul Bailey
