# Andrew Holleran
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andrew holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1943), an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, born and partly raised in Aruba, in the Dutch Caribbean. He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall gay literature. He was a member of The Violet Quill, a gay writer's group that met briefly from 1980-81.
Why Gays Love to Hate Going Out
We read Michael Musto’s 1978 Christopher Street cover story “Every Night Fever,” about the gays who go to the disco every night of the week, an example of a journalism genre that fascinates us—cultural trend stories that simultaneously report and constitute a social phenomenon. We discuss the pleas…
Why Are We So Angsty About Casual Sex?
We read gay novelist Andrew Holleran’s 1979 column “Fast-Food Sex,” in which he performs a playful exhaustion with gay promiscuity. Now cheap and abundantly available, gay sex has supposedly lost its power to thrill or even to signify. Already at the peak of post-Stonewall gay life, we see the outl…
What is Pride For?
Down with corporate Pride! Pride is a protest! Stonewall was a riot! Pride month has become as much about social media discourse as anything else, and in this episode, we try to look beyond posturing slogans and history-distorting morality tales to confront the many possible meanings and feelings o…
Andrew Holleran's 'Dancer from the Dance,' The Best Gay Novel of All Time
Our reverence for Andrew Holleran is no secret, and the appointed hour has arrived to talk about his 1978 masterpiece Dancer from the Dance, not just, as we argue, the best gay novel of all time but one of the best American novels. Despite remaining untaught in universities, unlike other classics o…
366. A Different Side of Dominick Dunne
In this Dominick focused episode, we are traveling back in time to 2017 for Andrew Holleran’s amazing review of Robert Hofler’s biography of Dunne, Money, Murder and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts. Published in The Gay and Lesbian Review, this review centers on much more of Dominick’s hidde…
Disco: The Music of Gay Liberation (w/ Thomas del Pozo)
Disco was one of the biggest cultural phenomena of the 1970s. Its explosion into a mass commercial phenomenon was driven by the 1977 box office smash hit Saturday Night Fever; the film's soundtrack, featuring the Bee Gees, blanketed the Billboard charts for months quickly became the top-selling alb…
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