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Seanachie: A Boston Irish Storyteller and Part-Time Shaman
Books about place, magic, Faeries, Ireland, sex, God, and love
Currently reading
New Orleans as It Was
New Orleans after the Civil War
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (complete: First & Second Series)
Bright Dead Things: Poems
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Desire: Poems
Selected Poems 1976-2012
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
I Am An Executioner: Love Stories
An Artist of the Floating World
Best Gay Stories 2016
Another solid collection of tales from editor Steve Berman and various authors, some of whom were familiar to me and some not. The collection is bookended by a pair of contemporary tales that upend standard gay tropes: a gay man who reverses his pilgrimage to San Francisco to return to where he grew up, and a gay couple whose chief worry at the exotic tropical wedding of a female friend is the premature child their surrogate mother is bringing into the world. In between are a number of tales that are less contemporary: the subject matter seems more nostalgic. In each, however, execution is strong. Among the best is a fantastic and elusive tale of three Hollywood screenwriters (one gay) and how their own lives become somewhat stranger and unfamiliar to them than the odd spectral late night TV program for which they write just before the 1960s turns everything on its head. If the collection lacks anything, it is a young gay ripped-from-the-headlines voice; this lack made the collection leisurely rather than urgent, but overall the diverse perspectives and strong voices made the reading a pleasure.
