The Review of Contemporary Fiction, September 22nd, 1996
The Violet Quill Club was formed by seven Manhattan writers, Edmund White among them, as a place to incubate and share gay writing. The growing audience for gay writing and the members' fame imposed physical limitations and emotional strains on the club, and after an uncontrollable quarrel, the club broke up. Its several years of existence are being exhaustively researched and discussed, although its members do not regard the club as having had much literary significance.
In early March 1980 New York City's in newspaper, the Soho News, published an article by Australian scholar Dennis Altman ...
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