Books by Jack Fritscher

TITANIC: Forbidden Stories Hollywood Forgot

This 4th collection of fiction by Jack Fritscher follows the National Small Press Book Award to his 3rd collection, Rainbow County and 11 Other Stories, as “Best Erotic Book 1998.” In itself, Titanic is a novella anchoring 9 very diverse and quite literary short stories whose erotic-themes have proven audience-friendly in previous publication in a variety of gay magazines. The title piece, Titanic, is–at long last–the forbidden gay love story of the most erotic cruise in history, featuring the Unsinkable Molly Brown, the Stoker, the Purser, and the Lovers ripped from the secret pages of a Titanic diary!

The titles of the other stories suggest their gay pop-erotica entertainment value: “Brideshead of Frankenstein Revisited,” “Billy Budd-Jones,” “My Baby Loves the Western Movies,” “Seducing Butch: Tattooed Biker,” “YMCA: The Night They Made Me a Man,” and “Tales from the Bear Cult.” Also included is the new and never published coming-of age story, “Movie Palace Blues: The Unseen Hand in the Lavender Light.” Readers may also enjoy the inclusion of a most readable X-rated screenplay, “Buck’s Bunkhouse,” which was recently taped as an actual erotic video.

“There is more diversity in these 10 stories by one author,” says A Different Light Bookstore owner Richard LaBonte, “than in most anthologies by 10 authors.” This is author Fritscher’s 12th book. In total, his books have sold to date more than 100,000 copies, and his name recognition is high from many years of publication in more than 25 gay magazines. He is best known for his biographical memoir of his life with his lover Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera, and for his epic ovel, Some Dance to Remember, which The New Republic called a classic comparable to Gore Vidal and James Baldwin.

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