The Best American Gay Fiction: v. 3 - Tapa blanda

Whether exploring topics unique to the gay experience, reinventing a genre from a gay perspective, or observing straight life through queer eyes, the stories in the third volume of this acclaimed anthology series offer compelling evidence that gay writers are producing some of the finest new fiction in America today. Best American Gay Fiction 3 highlights both outstanding new work by well-known writers and exciting and original stories by emerging talents.

What's particularly surprising about the third volume of this acclaimed anthology series is the many genres it encompasses. The exceptional writing collected here, culled from mainstream and alternative publications released in 1997, ranges from historical fiction to erotica, from high comedy to suspense, from the experimental to the documentary. Each of the seventeen stories explores gay themes, of course, but, equally important, each is an outstanding piece of short fiction. The writers -- some of them celebrated, some of them new discoveries -- whose work has been selected for this year's anthology include:

--Keith Banner -- Justin Chin -- Dennis Cooper -- Alfred Corn -- Jameson Currier -- Jim Eigo -- Thomas Glave -- Bob Gluck -- Andrew Sean Greer -- Allan Gurganus -- Scott Heim -- William Haywood Henderson -- Tom House -- Eric Gabriel Lehman -- James Morrison -- Matt Bernstein Sycamore -- Peter Weltner