Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterQueerguru’s London Correspondent JONATHAN KEMP has another day job too. He is the published author of London Triptych (Myriad, 2010) which was shortlisted for the inaugural Green Carnation Prize and won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award in 2011. His other fiction works include Twentysix (2011) and Ghosting (2015), and his nonfiction works include … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterI was always taught, and always teach, that drama occurs in the present tense – that theatre’s most valuable asset as a mode of storytelling lay in its presentation of the here and now, a story unfolding before you. This production/adaptation of Wilde’s classic novel makes the bold decision to deliver a retrospective narration: Dorian … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterQueerguru asked two of our prominent book reviewers for their FIVE FAVORITE QUEER BOOKS OF 2021. Queerguru London Contributing Editor Jonathan Kemp writes fiction and non-fiction and teaches creative writing at Middlesex University. He is the author of two novels – London Triptych (2010), which won the 2011 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLaunched during the lockdown, Homostash Diaries continues with a second issue of all things moustachioed, and another set of charming photos of charming facial hair and interviews. This time around the irrepressible and irresistible Casey Spooner gives a good interview, discussing the after-effects of lockdown on his career and on his commitment to being … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterI’ve been a huge fan of Mars-Jones’s work since I read his first book, The Lantern Lectures, back in the mid-eighties, followed by the shared collection of HIV/AIDS stories with Edmund White, A Darker Proof; and the first novel, The Waters of Thirst. In 1983 he edited a wonderful anthology of queer fiction entitled, Mae … Continue reading