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"It's so exciting what you are doing..."
--gay novelist and critic EDMUND WHITE in an email to the editor
"At a time when gay print journals like Blair House are folding (or turning into forgettable blogs), Ganymede, in only two issues, has jumped to the front rank of this crucial genre and now dominates it. Essays and stories are first rate when they’re not even better, and the photo portfolios are simply fantastic. Not to be missed."
--Erik Mitchell in AssociatedContent.com
"Ganymede is gaining momentum and is definitely a journal to watch."
--CHROMA, Britain's top gay journal (full text here)
GANYMEDE POETS, ONE
First annual anthology of poets published in our first six issues
172 pages, 6x9” perfect-bound paperback book
Illustrated throughout with thematic art photos
"Ganymede Poets, One is an innovative, nearly overwhelming new player among poetry anthologies."--AssociatedContent.com
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GANYMEDE STORIES, ONE
First annual anthology of short stories from our first six issues
207 pages, 6x9” perfect-bound paperback book
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GANYMEDE #6 issue (Jan. 2010, 272 pages)
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--DAVID SEDARIS on loving his man
--British 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!
--The Dirt on the Duchess: From Charles Higham's new memoir, learn what Chinese vaginal technique the Duchess of Windsor used to cure her man's impotence. Who needs the throne of England when your wife makes you cum?
--Book reviews: EDMUND WHITE’s new memoir City Boy...the final solution to JFK’s death...the gay Hollywood of William Mann...the landmark gay journalism of Benoit Denizet-Lewis...the new memoir by Matthew Shepard’s mother.
--Films on DVD: The Believer...Vatel...For a Lost Soldier...Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne...Paragraph 175...Mad Love...Total Eclipse... Office Killer...Madame Sata...Wisconsin Death Trip...The Smallest Show on Earth.
--MY DIVA: six gay authors on the great divas they love
--a rare homo-erotic mystery story by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
--14 gay poets, 5 gay story writers, gay photographers and artists
POETRY by Edward Field, Walter Holland, Steven Cordova, Gregg Shapiro, R. Nemo Hill, Stephen S. Mills, Brandon Lacy Campos, Jeff Mann, Lee Houck, Eric Norris, Bryan Borland, Christopher S. Soden, Sergio Ortiz, Mark Milazzo
FICTION by Denton Welch, Charlie Vásquez, Cyrus Cassells, Wayne Hoffman, Eric Karl Anderson, Andrew J. Peters
ART PORTFOLIO: Today’s Painters of the Male Form
PHOTO PORTFOLIOS: Yannis Angel, Kent Mercurio, Jannis Tsipoulanis, Eric Phillips, Lars Stephan
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GANYMEDE #5 issue (Oct. 2009, 344 pages)
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--EDMUND WHITE on writing gay
--OSCAR WILDE's delicious 1889 dialogue on art, “The Decay of Lying”
--GLENWAY WESCOTT's rare 1928 story of a little boy going to a ball in drag
--BERGDORF BOYS by Scott Hess: first half of a complete novel, both witty and dark, about gay party boys in New York
--TEN gay poets and EIGHT gay visual artists from around the world
--SUSAN GLASPELL's 1917 story “A Jury of Her Peers,” now a discovered text in feminist lit
--INDIE EYE returns with tips on obscure movies to rent, including the first gay Bollywood flick!
--The Paris of Our Dreams: the 19th-century transformation of Paris coincided with the birth of photography and the emergence of the first archival photographers, who snapped parts of the city either rising or falling.
ESSAYS: Writing Gay by Edmund White...Indie Eye (2) by Kush Varia...The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde...Teenage Transformer by Charlie Vásquez
POETRY by R.J. Gibson, Brian Brown, Matthew Hittinger, Michael Montlack, Ron Curlee, P. Viktor, David Bergman, Sean Patrick Conlon, Robert K. Müller, John Stahle
FICTION: A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell...Lots by Marc Andreottola...Adolescence by Glenway Wescott...Slavic Thickets: Two Stories by Boris Pintar...Bergdorf Boys (1) by Scott Hess
ART PORTFOLIO: Swan Princes: Paintings of Hernan Bas
PHOTO PORTFOLIOS: Bastien Bucquet...Luis Alvarez...Andre Bernardo...Iain Clacher...Andrea Pedretti...Charles Marville and early photographers of Paris...Josiah Shelton...Niro Taub
"When I pulled Ganymede #5 out of its box, I held a spine nearly an inch thick, healthy for an annual but unheard-of for a quarterly. And when I reached the end of its 344 pages, my head was spinning. Nothing remotely like Ganymede has been seen in the gay community in my lifetime. After crucial essays by Edmund White and Oscar Wilde, each section, presented with style and snap, leads you deep into gay male experiences of genuine interest and pungency. Ganymede has already been praised for its textual importance and visual splendor, but with this issue, it rises to real historic grandeur. No literate gay man can afford to miss it."--Erik Mitchell in AssociatedContent.com
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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)
Daniel Mendelsohn presents six of Cavafy's gay-est poems...Glenway Wescott's "A Visit to Priapus," his only explicitly gay story, available nowhere else
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GANYMEDE #2 issue (Feb. 2009, 176 pages)
Mark Jenkins...decoding Oscar Wilde...fascist-era male statuary in Rome
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GANYMEDE #1 issue (Oct. 2008, 124 pp)
MoMA's unfinished renovation...Penelope Fitzgerald...Muscle Ramon...Gay New York in 1968
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COMING UP IN GANYMEDE:
--Gay Manqué Project: After Britain criminalized all gay sex in 1885, a brilliant gay manqué literature arose: Oscar Wilde, Robert Hichens, Saki (H.H. Munro), Ronald Firbank, E.F. Benson and others--a literature that was richly gay-cultural without being explicitly gay. Over several issues, Ganymede will publish: a homo-erotic mystery by Robert Louis Stevenson, more Wilde rarities, key stories of Saki as well as the complete text of his Edwardian novel The Unbearable Bassington, plus the complete text of Hichens' notorious Green Carnation (1894) which first introduced the public to Oscar Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas.
--At our request, Brooks Peters rescued from complete obscurity Jay Little, a pulp fiction author who, all during the fifties and sixties, published best-selling gay-positive romances of men loving and living without self-hatred. This landmark in gay lit history will appear in the June issue of Ganymede.
--From Charles Higham's new memoir, dishy 1965 interviews with the last survivors of classic Hollywood, from Sam Goldwyn to Marlene Dietrich.
--The Weimar Germany of August Sander: precious photo records of German men of all classes before the Nazis silenced Sander and killed his son.
--Discoveries: unlike other journals, Ganymede doesn't care who you are as long as your writing is strong. In fact, we love to discover unknown/unpublished writers and we do so every single issue--like Robert Smith and Saeed Jones (in Ganymede #7), now being lionized elsewhere.
--Two beautiful and gifted Italian photographers we discovered, Federico Forlani and Fabio Panichi, return for a second portfolio each, in Ganymede #7.
--Outside the oppression of Christian homophobia there is much beautiful gay poetry by Arabic, Hebrew, and Ladino poets deserving release from obscure specialist journals. First up, Abu Nuwas (756-814), who celebrated urban homosexuality in tart, elegant Arabic verse. Abu was so famous he turns up in several tales from The Arabian Nights; read the best tale, along with three of his poems, in Ganymede #7.
--Two gay British photographers we discovered early on, Matthew Brindle and Andy Houghton, return with new work. Both are famous now.
--Camera Masters: every issue, an education in classic photographers: Charles Marville, Eugène Atget, August Sander, Berenice Abbott, Robert Frank and others: stay tuned!
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