{"id":147,"date":"2010-05-23T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:54:21","slug":"wilde_stories_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wilde_stories_2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilde Stories 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berman, Steve, ed. Wilde Stories 2009: The Best of the Year’s Gay Speculative Fiction.<\/em> Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2009. hardcover. 237p. ISBN: 1590210794 (library binding) — 1590210800 (paperback).<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Wilde<\/p>\n

Wilde Stories 2009<\/em> is the second in an annual anthology series reprinting gay-themed fantasy and horror stories published during the previous year. While the debut collection<\/a> was uneven, it contained much that was touching and delightful, and left me looking forward to a long and successful run.<\/p>\n

This year’s collection is, overall, disappointing. Too often, darkness and violence are made to substitute for genuine storytelling, and there is a surfeit of writing that calls attention to itself\u2014sometimes to the point of incoherence. It also suffers from a great many distracting\u2014and occasionally, confusing\u2014typos.<\/p>\n

The collection is not without its bright spots, however, including “Firooz and His Brother,” Alex Jeffers’ fable of love among the caravan masters of long-ago Samarkand, and Jameson Currier’s sad and spooky “The Bloomsbury Nudes.” Best of all is “AKA St. Mark’s Place,” a shadowy tale in which the magisterial Richard Bowes revisits the Greenwich Village of the 1960s and the lost young people who lived there.<\/p>\n

Recommended only for collections that aim to be comprehensive.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by,\u00a0Joyce Meggett<\/strong>
\nDivision Chief for Humanities
\nChicago Public Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Berman, Steve, ed. Wilde Stories 2009: The Best of the Year’s Gay Speculative Fiction. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2009. hardcover. 237p. ISBN: 1590210794 (library binding) — 1590210800 (paperback). Wilde Stories 2009 is the second in an annual anthology series reprinting gay-themed fantasy and horror stories published during the previous year. While the debut collection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}