Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS [Mass Market Paperback]

Jameson Currier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1995

With profound literary courage, Chekhovian compassion, and humor, Currier writes not only about those who are living with AIDS and those who have died from it, but also about the friends, families, and lovers who nurse and care for the sick and remember them afterward.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

12 affecting stories about people with AIDS and the disease's impact on the gay community.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140172726
• ISBN-13: 978-0140172720
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,195,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jameson Currier is the author of three novels: Where the Rainbow Ends, nominated for a Lambda Literary award, The Wolf at the Door, and The Third Buddha; and four collections of short fiction: Dancing on the Moon; Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex; Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories; and The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, which was awarded a Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection. His short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines and Web sites, including OutsiderInk, Velvet Mafia, Blithe House Quarterly, Absinthe Literary Review, Confrontation, Rainbow Curve, Christopher Street, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, and the anthologies Men on Men 5, Best American Gay Fiction 3, Certain Voices, Boyfriends from Hell, Men Seeking Men, Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best American Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Best Gay Stories, Circa 2000, Rebel Yell, I Do/I Don't, Where the Boys Are, Nine Hundred & Sixty-Nine, Wilde Stories, Unspeakable Horror, Art from Art, and Making Literature Matter. His AIDS-themed short stories have also been translated into French by Anne-Laure Hubert and published as Les Fantômes. His reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay culture have been published in many national and local publications, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Dallas Morning News, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Lambda Book Report, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Dallas Voice, The Washington Blade, Southern Voice, Metrosource, Bay Area Reporter, Frontiers, Ten Percent, The New York Native, The New York Blade, Out, and Body Positive. Since 2002 he has compiled a monthly digest of LGBT publishing notes which can be currently found on his blog Queertype. In 2010 he founded Chelsea Station Editions, an independent press devoted to gay literature. Among the authors the press has published in its first year are debut writers Craig Moreau and David Pratt, and veterans Felice Picano, Walter Holland, and Jon Marans. In November 2011 Currier also launched a new gay literary magazine, Chelsea Station. Currier is the recipient of writing grants from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation and The New York Foundation for the Arts, and in 2011 he was inducted into Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame in New Orleans. He currently resides in Manhattan.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Transcendentally Excellent, June 7, 2001

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T. Stanford Mommaerts-Browne (Bella Vista, AR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS (Mass Market Paperback)

I saw that this book had not yet been reviewed. It was so good that I had to try to encourage others to pick it up. I read it at work & many of my co-workers could not understand how a book on AIDS could be good. It must be too depressing. Well, yes. It is sad. But so is Long Days Journey into Night, Anne Frank's Diary & many other works of an enduring nature.

This collection clearly presents the human condition & human nature. Ironicly, the collection is spiritually uplifting.

The works, of course, are predominantly of Gay men & their loved ones. But there are others; and all characters are presented first & foremost as Humans, not Gay nor Straight; not Black nor White; not Jewish nor Goy.

Bottom line: It is moving and affecting. It is cathartic. And anyone who wants to know what it is to lose a loved one to anything ought to read it.