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GANYMEDE #4 issue (June 2009, 240 pages)
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Issue #4 Highlights:
--a rare reprint of OSCAR WILDE's most perfect prose story, LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME, the only fiction on par with his play "Earnest." If you were turned off by the dank, phony moralism of "Dorian Gray," this little-known work is the antidote. It fits perfectly with Wilde as insouciant wit and was a strong influence on H.H. Munro (Saki), Wilde's heir in fiction. First in a series of Wilde rarities.
--Filming porn with Matthew Rush, an on-the-scenes report of life among gay hos
--major portfolio on gay painter GEORGE TOOKER, whose luminous magic realism languished for decades in the shadow of his one-time lover Paul Cadmus...now a hit traveling museum show, the first in 30 years, is bringing him back, and Ganymede will help!
--BRUCE NUGENT, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance and the first African American to publish explicitly gay lit--30 years before James Baldwin. We present three witty chapters from his 1933 novel about gay twenties Harlem. An historic find and a great read!
--POETRY SLAM: Seven gay poets make their debuts in one special section!
--SEVEN portfolios of cutting-edge gay photographers from around the world
ESSAYS: Down Under with Matthew Rush...Ian Duncan: From Gay Teen to Porn Mogul
POETRY: The Blood He Released by Jee Leong Koh...The Distance Between Coasts by James Newborg...At the Feet of Your Stare by Matthew Stradling...The Crust of Someone Else by Jon Rentler...Sung through Spittle by Dug McDowell...A Storm in Our Kiss by Zhuang Yisa...Log On, Log Off by Matt Cogswell
FICTION: Almost No Memory by Ryan Doyle May...Pablo, There and There by Adam Jeffries Schwartz...As Is, I by B.R. Lyon...Last & Lost: Gay Son of the Harlem Renaissance: Three stories by Bruce Nugent...Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde
ART PORTFOLIO: George Tooker
PHOTO PORTFOLIOS: Fabio Panichi...Andrea Francesco Berni...Daniel Schultz...René Becker...Pablo Moran...Costel Magopat...Davide Poggi
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GANYMEDE #3 issue (April 2009, 200 pages)
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Issue #3 Highlights: DANIEL MENDELSOHN selects six of Cavafy's poems just for us...British gay author Richard Canning covers the Saint Laurent auction in Paris for us...reprint of a rare story by GLENWAY WESCOTT, as our part in the current revival of his work; another will appear in #5 issue...NINE spectacular portfolios by cutting-edge gay photographers from around the world
ESSAYS:
--Fragments of a Gay Life: Saint Laurent’s Auction by Richard Canning
--New York Notes: Wal-Mart...and Other Effects by Julian Grenfell
Wal-Mart’s effect on world trade...why women are rising and men sinking, and how it helps gay boys...what certain objects in Vermeer paintings tell us about the global economy of his time...Victorian visitors to Britain...how Chekhov got started...is the Putin regime communist or fascist?...all about self-publishing
POETRY:
Cavafy, Poet of Desire: six poems by C.P. Cavafy, selected and translated by Daniel Mendelsohn...This Five-Fingered Self by Christopher Gaskins...Searching the Air for a Lost Language by Jase Donaldson...The Knowledge of Possible Loss by Cyril Wong
FICTION:
Breaking the Bough by Sam J. Miller...Memories of Inexpression by John Stahle...A Visit to Priapus (1938) by Glenway Wescott
PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIOS:
Masks and Reflections by Federico Forlani...Big Endings by Simón Pais-Thomas...Grease and Grab: Real Turkish Wrestling by Lawrence Grecco...What Era Hides in Me? Images of Mario Leko...Dylan Rosser, X-Posed by Dylan Rosser...The Victorian Gaze: Images of Israel Marquez...Stretch and Click: Self Portraits of David Saavedra...Hong Kong High: Self Portraits of Kenny Wan...Glam and Hiss: Party Photos of Jan Durina
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GANYMEDE #2 (Feb. 2009, 176 pages)
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“I sat up all night with my second issue of Ganymede. The content only gets deeper with scrutiny. Now I can’t wait to see what the third issue offers, and the fourth...”
--Christopher Roland in Helium.com
Highlights:
--A spectacular 20-page profile of Mark Jenkins, the finest art photographer of the male form working today. Our profile is the first substantial recognition of his work in any periodical anywhere.
--First half of a novella set in the Pines over one weekend
--A photo essay by Stefano Corso on Mussolini's Fascist-era nude male statuary in the Stadio dei Marmi in Rome, a subject studiously avoided by art and guide books
--Debut of two exciting gay poets: Matt Loney and David Ayllon
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
--Indie Eye: capsule reviews of smart, obscure indie films worth renting. By Philip Clark
--Readings: Decoding Oscar Wilde...Among Others. By Julian Grenfell
Learning the gay codes in Oscar Wilde’s best play...Robbie Ross, the friend and lover who saved Oscar’s legacy...how gay lib began in the classrooms of Victorian Oxford...Rosa Bonheur: the art of wearing pants...Prince Albert, the real monarch of modern Britain...the gay underworld of late Victorian London...James Saslow and the new role of gay art history.
--Bachelors of Art: Ned Warren and John Marshall. Two forgotten gay lovers, circa 1900, peers of Frick and Morgan in art collecting. By Laurent Hillaire.
FICTION: Accommodations in Venice by Adam Jeffries Schwartz
Tender Bottoms (ch 1-5) by John Stahle
POETRY by Matt Loney and David Ayllon
SEVEN PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIOS: Renaissance Men: Mark Jenkins’ Photo Art...The Allusive Selves of Frank Gabriel...Fragments of Night: Marco Diaz...Mussolini’s Men: Fascist Hunks in Rome (Stefano Corso)...Everyday Gay: Travels with Cadi (Cadi Cunha)...The Screen of the Body: Andy Houghton...Everyday Gay: Thomas Walshaw
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GANYMEDE #1 issue (Oct. 2008, 124 pp)
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COMING UP IN GANYMEDE:
--EDMUND WHITE on writing gay
--DAVID SEDARIS on loving his man
--GLENWAY WESCOTT’s 1928 story “Adolescence,” second in our series reviving his work
--Brit gay author DENTON WELCH (1915-1948), enjoying a big cult following in the UK, returns to America thanks to Ganymede: SIX sample stories over three issues!
--"A Jury of Her Peers" by SUSAN GLASPELL: this 1917 short story is being re-discovered as a key text in American feminist literature...read it here!
--BORIS PINTAR, a leading gay writer in Slovenia, debuts with two marvelous stories
--HERNAN BAS, young gay artist in Miami, being touted in museum shows as the next David Hockney
--homo-erotic detective stories of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
--Second in a series of OSCAR WILDE rarities every gay boy should read: "The Decay of Lying." In this delicious 1889 dialogue, two young, fruity aesthetes lay out Oscar's philosophy of art.
--The Paris of Our Dreams: the 19th-century transformation of Paris coincided with the birth of photography, and the rise of archival photographers who snapped parts of the city either rising or falling. Our portfolio shows these precious images.
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