Denny Smith Stories [Paperback]

Robert Gluck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2003

Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. The stories in DENNY SMITH use events in the life of Robert Gluck as a ground for the expansion of empathy and intellect. These events include burglary, sex, conversation, reading, humiliation, child raising, and porn. Gluck's previous books include MARGERY KEMPE and JACK THE MODERNIST, both newly available from SPD. "Flaubert says in a letter to Louise Colet that good prose should be stuffed with things. This is good prose indeed, filled with shells and duck meat and sunlight and flesh and gardening tools and sperm..."--Samuel R. Delany.

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About the Author

Robert Glück is the author of the novels Margery Kempe (Serpent's Tail Publishing, 1994), Jack the Modernist (Serpent's Tail Publishing, 1995), and three collections of prose and poetry: Reader (Lapis Press, 1989), Elements of a Coffee Service (Four Seasons Foundation, 1983), and Denny Smith (Clear Cut Press, 2004). He lives in San Francisco and teaches at San Francisco State University, where he is an editor of the online journal Narrativity.

Through his own writing and a workshop he taught at San Francisco's Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in the 1980s, Glück helped shape what became known as "New Narrative," a movement that included his friends and colleagues Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, and Dodie Bellamy. An essay by Glück about the social history of that practice can be read online. (While you're there, you should also read Kevin Killian's account of the same.) In addition, Earl Jackson's interview with Glück is online at Another Scene. Michel Foucault esteemed Glück as one of the world's greatest writers about sex. "Remember," Glück pointed out in an e-mail to Clear Cut, "impurity is Robert spelled backward."

Product Details

• Paperback: 267 pages
• Publisher: Clear Cut Press (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972323449
• ISBN-13: 978-0972323444
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,241,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, July 29, 2008

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This review is from: Denny Smith Stories (Paperback)

The stories, read in order, form a complete work. This work is beautiful, sensual and dreamlike, sometimes hilarious, but always with such depth. Sexuality/sensuality about life itself, astutely observed. Like a cross between Jean Genet and Reinaldo Arenas. I will read this again.