RAINBOW COUNTY
Stories for Bears, Daddies, and Leathermen
WINNER NATIONAL
SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD
BEST EROTIC FICTION
Readers will thrill to Fritscher’s style and imagination. He is the author, says The Bay Area Reporter, who invented the South of Market prose style and the butchest, funniest, and best of the male-male magazines (such as Drummer & MAN2MAN Magazine).
Fritscher’s short stories have appeared in more than 25 magazines. Rainbow County crosses over from pure gay literature to the terrain of actual American literature. These highly diverse stories are blessed with wit, erotic ingenuity, poetic intelligence, and rough-and-tumble sex scenes.
Fritscher does for writing what his lover Mapplethorpe did for photography: happily confuse the issues by making sex intelligent and therefore all the sexier.
Geoff Mains, the author of Urban Aboriginals, wrote in The Advocate, “Jack Fritscher writes wonderful books!” He’s right. Fritscher is absolutely epicentric to gay literature.
His stories and his style are what you’ve been wishing someone would write to turn on both your dick and your brain. You’ll love the stories about soldiers, young men at summer camp, fathers and sons, rough trade, cowboys, swimmers, wrestlers, muscleguys who prefer men with ordinary bodies for sex, even some very sexy X-Files type science fiction!
Richard LaBonte, critic at A Different Light bookstore who chose two of Fritscher’s short stories for BEST GAY EROTICA 1998, says Fritscher wins the award for best title of the year for the Rainbow County short story called “Rough Night@Sodom.Cum”!
REVIEW COMMENTS
“Jack Fritscher is undoubtedly a masterful writer of gay fiction, but he is first and foremost an extraordinary American writer.”
—Nancy Sundstrom, Independent Publisher Magazine
“You’ve read this popular author. You’ve seen his videos. With more than 5,000 pages in print in more than 30 gay magazines, Jack Fritscher is epicentric to the Gay Canon of Erotic Literature.
—Claude Thomas, Temple Bar News
“Buckle your seatbelts and hang on!
—Lambda Book Report
“Powerful, primal entertainment”
—Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica
Bedside reading you keep by your bed! Short stories by “The Master of Gay Fiction!”
—Larry Townsend, The Leatherman’s Handbook