| Title: |
Talking To . . . |
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| Author: |
Peter Burton |
| Published by: |
Third House, 1991 |
| ISBN: |
1-870188-17-9 [paperback, 194 pages] |
Talking To
. . . is a fascinating book, a collection of interviews with writers writing
on gay themes, in which they discuss their work, their view of the world,
their achievements and hopes. Peter Burton, arts and features editor of
Gay Times is uniquely qualified to bring out the best in the people
he interview. Author of the official biography of Rod Stewart, an autobiographer
himself (Parallel Lives), and a journalist for the whole of his
working existence, he has the ability to ask exactly the right questions
and elicit frank, often unexpected, and provocative answers.
These interview span a quarter of a century: some of the
writers talking here - Christopher Isherwood, for example, Robin Maugham,
and Kenneth Williams, are now dead; others - Francis King, Patrick Gale,
Neil Bartlett - have book still to write. Talking To . . . is a
highly readable and immensely useful contribution to our knowledge of gay
literature, history, and the lives of our authors.
