Sacred Monsters
Praise for Edmund White"Sexy and amazingly knowledgeable. You'll feel like stampeding to a bookstore once Edmund White gets through with you."--John Waters“[The Burning Library] reveals what a fine essayist [White] is. White's descriptions of gay male life of the past 30 years and the changes in attitude that have occurred among gay men toward themselves and their sexuality are clear, forceful, intelligent, and thought-provoking…White offers other essays and reviews of the work of contemporary writers, American and European, gay and nongay, such as James Merrill, Christina Stead, Darryl Pinckney, and Marguerite Yourcenar. This material, together with White's discussions of his own fiction, provides valuable insights into the reading and writing of literature.”—Library Journal“The doyen of his now middle-aged generation of gay novelists, White writes seductively well. He is facile, amusing, chatty, convivial, accessibly intellectual--in short, he possesses just the qualities that make his cultural journalism, of which this book affords a generous sampling spanning 25 years, delightful…”—Booklist"By marrying biography and criticism [Arts and Letters] achieves a grand social critique.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon, winner of the National Book Award"Edmund White's 39 reviews, interviews and essays...are a shocking display of friendliness, optimism, openness and tact.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review