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Cool Thing: The Best New Gay Fiction from Young American Writers
Blair Mastbaum, Will Fabro, Editors
Running Press (runningpress.com)
The 18 stories in this anthology are meant to give us a glimpse into the lives of 20-something gay men. Decades after so much gay fiction ended in despair and suicide, this collection depicts young gay life to be all about drugs, sex workers, and other delusions. This is progress? The writing isn’t bad, exactly, but much of it smacks of trying too hard to be edgy and ends up merely sensational.
— Review: Neil Ellis Orts
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